Orin Kerr

Just a reminder to law students—and especially 1Ls—I wrote a short and free guide for how to excel on law school exams. Download it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Niche tweet, but for those interviewing for law professor jobs, here's what I have found (as a previous candidate myself) to be really useful advice:

1) Realize that people interviewing you will vary a lot in terms of how well they know your file. Some have studied your CV closely and have read your paper very carefully. Others haven't: They have at best skimmed your paper, they don't know what you're about. Answer questions with this uncertainty in mind.

2) Have fun, or at least act like you're having fun. Be playful with ideas, and be ready to run with oddball hypos or challenges to your worldview. If an interviewer is hostile towards you or your ideas, don't get defensive: A lot of faculties have someone like that, and they probably don't have a lot of influence on the faculty anyway.

This advice is given entirely in my personal capacity, obviously. Void where prohibited.

Useful overview in the @nytimes of what might happen with the arch, ballroom, etc. under the new Congress. But there's a piece missing: If Trump succeeds in getting what he wants, can't any future President just undo it? If he has this power, so does the next President.

If you're interested in being a law professor, or just want to know how law professors think, I did this podcast series of 15 interviews, "The Legal Academy," back in 2020. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Third tweet is perfection.