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...want to wait and see if I definitely want to get into law or if I would prefer the route of academia,” Burger said. “Through writing my thesis this year, this decision will become more clear...
...select for tenure. Although faculty from within a school are often the most qualified to determine how cohesively candidates will work with existing Faculty and the student body, the selection of tenure without any outside judges can make the tenure process dangerously biased. Too often, the insular world of academia breeds a faculty that “self-reproduces” in only offering tenure to a certain type of professor favored by the faculty. Broadening the initial round of selection with ad hoc committees incorporating non-Harvard opinions, internal favoritism will likely be reduced and fresh talent...
...ACADEMIA Prof. Rainmaker
...lesbian graduates of HLS have influenced the profession in countless ways, taking leading positions in academia, the judiciary and public interest law, and proving to the world that openly gay people have as much of a place in the law as anyone. HLS’s gay alumni include two of the most prominent openly gay elected officials in the country; the nation’s first openly gay or lesbian federal judge; several of the nation’s top authorities on sexual orientation and the law; and many, if not most, of the leading courtroom advocates...
...Those of us who do this work within academia and outside academia have a tendency to think we have it all worked out,” Grant-Thomas said. “It’s good to meet people with equally strong convictions...