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Someone posted a long thread to a micro blogging site I am on about the self-hosted library. I am not going to link to it because it’s well-meaning and also not a one-off. These posts appear
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The Changing Times
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It is a new year according to people who follow the Gregorian tradition. Increasingly, I have neglected or ignored the change from December 31 to January 1. It may be age as much as anything—I
Æ is for Effort
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The semester is over. All going well, my grading will be done by the time this post appears. I am looking forward to the student evaluations, which I made a very pointed pitch to have them
The Inbox and the Desk Chair
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I was sick recently and had to miss some days of work. This meant that my email inbox was filling up. Even as we move into the holiday-end-of-semester-holiday period, I can see more than 50 emails
Blog Post Rescue Mission
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I posted recently about how, despite there being a great opportunity, blogs seem to remain a niche information source. I mentioned the LawProfs network, which hosted a couple of blogs I followed (Academic Success, and
Dog Fooding the LMS
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The University is moving from Anthology’s Blackboard learning management system to Instructure’s Canvas. It looks like it’s just in the nick of time. Our full cut over isn’t until fall 2026 but, both because I’m
Scholarship Clout Chasing
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I had a sales pitch from a program inside Elsevier’s SSRN unit. The idea was to create a Research Paper Series that showcases the law school’s scholarship. The Dean pitched the cold call over to me
Artificial Intelligence is a Gift
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I had to laugh to myself when a journal editor said that it was all they could do to avoid an AI-only volume. We were on a panel discussing artificial intelligence in law school and I
High-Profile Presentation Logistics
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I’ve been at the law school for over a year now and we have monthly faculty assemblies outside of the summer months. It has been interesting to see people’s presentation styles in what is the largest
No, Your OTHER Self
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I have been noticing my guard dropping in my interactions at work. I first noticed it after a class, when the students had brought up a topic and I had ended up reaching back into my