MORE ADVICE for aspiring law professors. And if you missed it over the weekend, read this post. It occurs to me that the wider availability of this kind of information from academic bloggers — information that used to be available mostly to people who attended a few top schools that groom their graduates for academic careers — will serve to weaken the relative position of the top schools. Just another example of the Internet’s hierarchy-flattening effect.

UPDATE: Thoughts on blogs and academia — making hiring committees look kind of bad — can be found here.