Mark:

This is most helpful.  Thank you very much.

Donna


Mark Conrad wrote:


>Hi:
>
>Being a veteran of tenure issues over the last five years, I found that
our
>area had to come up with a rigorous standard suitable for legal
scholarship and
>then explain that standard to our colleagues in other business
disciplines. I
>am generally happy to say that after some time, our colleagues have
accepted
>our standard.
>
>We prefer our candidates to publish in law reviews, although we do ask
that
>they publish at least one article in a respected peer-reviewed journal,
such as
>ABLJ. Since our candidates come up in the sixth year of service, we ask
that
>they have six publications/acceptances by that time. Since one of them
will be
>in a refereed journal, the other five should be in solid "B level" (top
100
>law reviews) at the very least. We ask that the candidate provide the
>acceptance rates (ideally below 20 percent) and we have some rankings
of law reviews
>and specialty law reviews for reference. I also will do a lexis search
of the
>number of citations of these articles (admittedly front-loaded to
earlier works,
>because the latest works may not be published as of yet). I also
encourage
>candidates to send their works out to scholars in the field, teaching in
>business schools and law schools to get their feedback.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Mark Conrad
>Associate Professor, and Area Chair
>Legal and Ethical Studies
>Schools of Business
>Fordham University
>212/636-7975
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