by Daniel J. Solove Ask people what the key factor for success is, and they’ll provide the typical answers: skill, luck intelligence . . . These things are often keys to success.
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Category: Advice
Posts about Advice by Professor Daniel J. Solove for his blog at TeachPrivacy, a privacy awareness and security training company.
Why Learning the Humanities Is a Key to Success
A recent piece in the New York Times by Verlyn Klinkenborg discusses the withering of humanities in higher education: “The teaching of the humanities has fallen on hard times. So says a new report on the state of the humanities by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.” Students majoring in key humanities subjects are dwindling, and the article […]
The Best Privacy Blog
For quite some time, I’ve been relying on the blog Pogo Was Right to keep up to date on privacy news.
10 Tips for Law Students Who Want to Pursue Careers in Legal Academia
I recently posted data about law professor hiring statistics per institution where teaching applicants earned their JD. Some students from schools that did not have high success percentages have expressed despair that their chances are low because of the school they graduated (or will be graduating) from. My intent in collecting and analyzing this data […]
Law Teaching Interview Advice: How to Ace the Job Talk
So you want to be a law professor, and you survived the dreaded AALS “meat market” in Washington, DC. You’re now sitting by the phone, waiting anxiously for a phone call for a second date. The phone rings . . . and you’ve got a callback! Now what?
Law School Exam-Taking Tips
Since nearly everybody on this blog is chiming in with posts about exams, I thought I’d do a post about exams too. This post consists of the advice handout I give to 1Ls about taking law school exams. I haven’t handed it out recently since I haven’t taught 1Ls in a while, though I think […]
Law Teaching Interview Advice
The AALS law teaching interview season will be commencing soon, and since a number of our readers will be interviewing for law teaching jobs, here are a few quick words of advice.
More Job Talk Advice
Orin’s post has some great job talk advice. Here’s my two cents. The key to a good job talk is to advance one idea in a clear and interesting way and then lead an intellectually engaging conversation about it. Some tips: