Faculty Hiring & Academic Careers

Section Summary – Distance Education Workshop

Building Community and Inclusion Using Online Legal Education July 24, 2024 The focus of this workshop was to explore ways to promote a robust culture of community and inclusion in an online course. The participants all had vast experience in teaching in a variety of online modalities. The discussion was divided into three periods: before class starts, during class and after class. Before the class starts, steps taken included introducing the topic through an email or a video to the class, inviting students to share something about themselves via a post, capping the class size to a small class and/or dividing the class into smaller cohorts or teams. During class, many instructors established rules on how to address each other

Session Summary – Crafting Your Scholarship Goals (Aspiring Law Teachers Workshop)

Submitted by Brian Owsley As the title suggests, his group focused on developing scholarship in the criminal law arena. Many participants had a number of interesting projects including the following: Mike Vitiello: His article seeks to address the failure progressive reforms in criminal justice in three areas: prison reform, sentencing reform related to drug cases, and attempts to expand sexual assault crimes. Eang Ngov: Her article proposes to assess the third-party doctrine by looking at differences regarding whether the information is shared between friends or businesses. In a second article, she proposes a topic concerning when police can lie to suspects and what the constitutional standard should be. Jordan Wallace-Wolf: He proposes an article on geofence warrants addressing the constitutionality of placed based searches addressing

Session Summary – Crafting Your Scholarship Goals (Aspiring Law Teachers Workshop)

Submitted by Brian Owsley The panel broadly addressed what junior professors should develop as a research or scholarship agenda, including what topics to write about and how to develop the agenda. The panel also discussed how to develop time to write in light of other obligations personal or professional. People discussed placement of scholarship. Finally, the panel discussed engagement with social media and media.

Session Summary – New Scholars Workshop on Property Law

Submitted by W. Keith Robinson The New Scholars Workshop in Property Law was held on Tuesday morning from 10:15 am to 12 pm. This unique platform allows junior faculty from member schools, nominated by their respective law school deans, to showcase their works-in-progress. The workshop creates a nurturing and supportive environment for these “New Scholars” to present their emerging research and gain valuable feedback from assigned mentors – senior scholars who are experts in the field. The panel was moderated by Professor Ericka Kelsaw of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University. The panel was comprised of three new academics: Professor Jessica L. Asbridge from Baylor University Law School, Professor Match Dawson from St. Mary’s University School of

Session Summary – Aspiring Law Teachers Workshop: Crafting Your Scholarship Goals

Submitted by Lou Virelli The Aspiring Law Teachers Workshop is a recurring annual program at SEALS designed to provide people who are preparing to go on the teaching market information and skills that will be useful to their job search. On Saturday afternoon, a group of experienced and aspiring faculty members met to discuss a series of issues relevant to new and emerging scholars. The group covered a wide variety of topics. The meeting began with a vibrant discussion of how to develop new scholarship ideas. Recurring themes included finding topics that are current, that inspire you intellectually and emotionally, and that may be commonly featured in relevant blogs or legal news sources. The conversation shifted to development of those