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When Tenure Standards Are Wrong
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Grimmelmann, James |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | RIC GOLDMAN SAYS that outside reviewers should apply the tenure standards of the school asking for a review. It sounds tautological: what other standards could possibly apply? But Goldman’s point is a little subtler. To paraphrase Erie, there is no general common “law” of tenure. One’s job as a reviewer is not to apply some abstract standard of scholarly quality and quantity, but rather the specific standards a law school’s senior faculty hold themselves to – and have told their junior colleagues to expect to be held to. All of this is right, most of the time. But sometimes a school’s tenure standards are wrong, and when they are, reviewers should say so. The most common problem I’ve seen is that tenure standards simply fail to consider whether scholarship is broadly accessible. The ideal of “publication” isn’t an empty formal threshold: it entails a meaningful effort to make scholarship |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.31228/osf.io/dvahp |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://james.grimmelmann.net/files/articles/tenure-standards.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2703&context=facpub |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.greenbag.org/v20n3/v20n3_micro_symposium.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.31228/osf.io%2Fdvahp |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
