Academic

Belle on the Things Academics Want

By Lawrence Solum

Not the same things as everydoby else!

Read Belle first & if you are grading, you can waste even more time by reading the continuation to this post.

My list of things legal academics want:

A drawer with an ever replenishing supply of binder clips

An office close to the coffee maker

An interview on NPR about their new book

Leave

More leave

An offer

More offers

Cites

More cites

The ability to type as fast as Cass Sunstein

Dick Posner's book royalties

And things other academics have that law professors envy:

Graders

Real scholarly associations

Some idea of what they are supposed to be doing

Fewer arguments about procedure in faculty meetings

Journal editors who understand what they read

Things law professors have that other academics envy

Salaries

Travel budgets

Journals without standards

Getting a job without writing a diss

Tenure in less than six years

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).