Scott Gerber on who goes to conferences, etc.

[Bob Sheridan]

As a relative newcomer to the field who is not a professional academic, 
but who teaches the subject of this list anyway, I LIKE to see who the 
people are who have made names for themselves in such a competitive 
environment and I WANT to see what they have to say that I need to know, 
haven't thought of, etc. 

I can see arguing with opinions that seem off-base, far-fetched, too 
one-sided, and the like, but not arguing with success.  I take my hat 
off to the names that are respected and the ones that are in the 
pipeline.  I'm gratified that they put up with people like me with as 
much patience as they do.

Thank you.

rs
sfls

Scott Gerber wrote:
> Thanks to Michael Curtis and Bobby Lipkin for their thoughtful posts.
>
> FYI, I'm chair of the faculty development committee at my law college 
> and my committee tries to invite new voices for at least three of our 
> four lectures in our annual dean's lecture series.  It can be done.  
> The lectures by the new voices have been uniformly terrific.
>
> FYI2, the silence from the big names on this list on this issue is 
> deafening.
>
> Have a nice weekend,
> Scott
>
>
> RJLipkin at aol.com wrote:
>
>
>   
>> I'm not sure whether  Michael is stating that the current system "is 
>>     
> pretty 
>   
>> well entrenched" and  that's good or not. Further, the proposition that 
>>     
> there 
>   
>> is a "natural  aristocracy of talent" is falsified over and over again 
>>     
> in 
>   
>> reading articles and  books of scholars who are not members of the 
>>     
> constitutional 
>   
>> law and theory  "in-crowd."  Aside from the system being unjust or 
>> unfair--something that  most of us are pretty familiar with--suppose, 
>>     
> just suppose, that 
>   
>> some unique  (and important if it were read) work goes unnoticed and 
>>     
> that that 
>   
>> loss is a  permanent loss for constitutional scholarship. Of course, 
>>     
> one can 
>   
>> argue that,  just as Berkeley's unheard sound, we'll never know that we 
>>     
> lost 
>   
>> anything if the  in-crowd persists in crowing its own merit and if the 
>>     
> unnoticed 
>   
>> shcolarship  is unnoticed. Nevertheless for realists it should matter. 
>>
>>        What's worse is that  several members of the constitutional law 
>> in-crowd, I can't help, but believe,  know that this "entrenched" 
>>     
> system cannot be 
>   
>> defended in any way at all.   Not being a member of this in-crowd I 
>>     
> can't 
>   
>> readily appreciate how some of its  members who I admire don't do more 
>>     
> to 
>   
>> disentrench the system. But then, perhaps,  my zeal for reform who 
>>     
> whither, if 
>   
>> contrary to fact, I became a member of the  in-crowd. Even in this 
>>     
> hypothetical vein, 
>   
>> I certainly hope not.
>>
>> Bobby
>>
>> Robert Justin  Lipkin
>> Professor of Law
>> Widener University School of  Law
>> Delaware
>>
>>     
>
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>
> Scott Gerber
> Law College
> Ohio Northern University
> Ada, OH 45810
> 419-772-2219
> http://www.law.onu.edu/faculty/gerber/
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