A couple additional thougths. First, I think it depends on your faculty’s culture. There are indeed faculties where the advice you received would be spot on. Most of us, fortunately, work at places where that is not the case. Second, it depends on what one means by a draft. If someone’s draft is too shoddily written or not really thought through, some might question the writer’s intellectual capacity.

I’ve heard the same advice, and I’ve had the same reaction as you.

My initials are “CRY.” There is only one person here who has been insulting.

You posted your same off-topic comment to three different posts. Since Hoffman started a thread on the subject, I redirected you to that. As for my students, I’m sure several them are reading my comments here since they read and are posting on my Sex Crimes Blog as part of my Sex Crimes seminar (and know I’m blogging here as well for this month). Regarding the economy and jobs for law students, I don’t have too much to say – it is a sad reality right now. Instead, I try to spend time working with my students to help them find the best possible jobs for them. If I had anything to say in a blog post about the subject, I would. However, I really don’t have anything to add to the topic that hasn’t been said before.

If you have further comments to me, feel free to email me rather than continuing this off-topic comment thread.

Purely as a rhetorical device (for I am uninterested in your next insult): don’t you think there’s something wrong with that? PARTICULARLY AS A PROFESSOR AT A FOURTH TIER LAW SCHOOL. Both Professors Hoffman and Desai indicated they would make a gesture towards the concerns that were voiced (and is not plaintive as much as it is vocalizing a very real problem in the industry, and one you as a law professor play a pivotal role in).

It is my sincere hope that just one of your students has viewed your treatment of this issue today. And you did it all so publicly … without, frankly, that much goading from me. What a model law professor and idealistic man.

Law school is a calculated risk undertaken by adults, and the relevant data is out there.

Now if they penalize it, then think of it this way. when you decide to leave those stunted minds behind, the high-quality work will help you go somewhere more enlightened.

Both junior and senior scholars do sometimes circulate drafts too early, before they have done enough thinking to make responsive comments useful. But that is a different issue.