Comments on: Are Exploding Offers So Bad? http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/01/exploding_offer.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:31:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: PrawfsBlawg http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/01/exploding_offer.html/comment-page-1#comment-60699 PrawfsBlawg Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:31:05 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/01/are-exploding-offers-so-bad.html#comment-60699 <strong>Law teaching and exploding offers</strong> Jennifer Mnookin over at LawCulture has a great post concerning exploding offers on the teaching market. She writes:I get the feeling that exploding offers just might be increasing, and sometimes with deadlines that seem ever-earlier.Our readership inc... Law teaching and exploding offers

Jennifer Mnookin over at LawCulture has a great post concerning exploding offers on the teaching market. She writes:I get the feeling that exploding offers just might be increasing, and sometimes with deadlines that seem ever-earlier.Our readership inc…

]]> By: Etaoin Shrdlu http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/01/exploding_offer.html/comment-page-1#comment-60698 Etaoin Shrdlu Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:07:13 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/01/are-exploding-offers-so-bad.html#comment-60698 I agree with Dan's sense of the pragmatics here. Another variant, which I don't think Mnookin mentions, is a "first come, first served" approach. For example, a school that wants to hire one new professor, and that finds more than one of the prospects suitable, can offer the job to all the prospects with the clear information that whoever accepts the job first gets it. (This seems, to me at least, to be less harsh than an offer that expires quickly on a date certain.) I agree with Dan’s sense of the pragmatics here. Another variant, which I don’t think Mnookin mentions, is a “first come, first served” approach. For example, a school that wants to hire one new professor, and that finds more than one of the prospects suitable, can offer the job to all the prospects with the clear information that whoever accepts the job first gets it. (This seems, to me at least, to be less harsh than an offer that expires quickly on a date certain.)

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