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Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Legal Writing Professors: A Story Of A Hierarchy Within A Hierarchy

Today’s column is about a different type of hierarchy in academia.  This column is dedicated to some of the hard-working colleagues who go to faculty meetings but don’t speak much, who do a lot of the thankless committee work at many schools, and who spend more time with students than most other law professors.  The colleagues who, for the most part, don’t have tenure, get paid a lot less, and in many schools often have smaller offices away from their tenured companions.  I went to school at such a place, where the legal writing and clinical faculty were quite literallybeneath the rest of the faculty, one floor below.

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