Speaking Schedule for This Semester

I am happy to (virtually) visit other law schools

I usually visit about 50 law schools a year for lectures. This semester, I do not plan to take any trips, anywhere. I will remain in the bubble. On the plus-side, I am happy to visit law schools and related groups virtually. Indeed, Zoom will let me speak at some campuses that are tougher to visit.  (At last count, I've lectured in 37 states).

If you'd like me to visit your law school or related group, please drop me a line: josh-at-joshblackman.com.

Here are some of the topics I have prepared for this semester:

1. The Future of the Conservative Legal Movement
2. Undone: The New Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare
3. Heller Outside The Home: The Right To Bear Arms Returns
4. Opening Pandora's Box: The Administrative State and the Roberts Court
5. Stare Decisis: What precedent will fall next?
6. Blue June: The Future of the Roberts Court
7. Supreme Court Term Roundup and Preview
8. 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know
9. Click to Shoot: The 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, and 3D-Printed Guns –
10. Safe Spaces: Free Speech and Academic Diversity in Law Schools
11. Censoring Legal Ethics: The First Amendment and ABA Rule 8.4(g)
12. Presidential Profits: The Foreign Emoluments Clause from George Washington to Donald Trump.
13. Restoring the Lost Confirmation: The Next Supreme Court Confirmation Battle.

I hope to see you soon.

Comments

[bernard11]

I usually visit about 50 law schools a year for lectures.

Without reference to Blackman particularly, does anyone else find this bizarre?

Who pays for all this? Where does the time come from? Is this what law professors do - travel around on the students' dimes and give lectures to each other?

[Dan Schiavetta]

He says he visits. He doesn't say they actually let him speak. By now they probably know to put up roadblocks when they get wind that he's coming.

And he says he's "lectured in 37 states". Note that he carefully doesn't say that he lectures at the law schools, or even indoors, or even in populated areas.

[LawTalkingGuy]

I don’t know if 50 is a lot or a little, but yes, this is what law professors do. It’s also what professors in other fields do too. Doing this is part of the “service” requirement of the tenure track.

So for law schools a lot of times student groups will use some orb their funds for particular speakers. These are often supported by student fees, but not always. For instance student fees didn’t support the Federalist Society which is typically funded by outside donors (although I can’t speak to how each chapter gets funding). And I imagine Josh does lots of Federalist Society events. Other talks, lectures, or panel discussions will be done using funds set aside for that from the school or other donors.
Some events are jointly sponsored by outside organizations. I imagine if there’s a book that’s being published the publisher may have a hand in organizing and supporting a talk as part of the promotion of the book. There’s also two other law schools in Houston, so I imagine from time to time they go across town to panels at each other’s schools.

We make fun of Josh here for his endless self-promotion, but part of the things he does is just part of academic life. You can always engage in overkill though.

[bernard11]

yes, this is what law professors do. It’s also what professors in other fields do too.

It's not what professors I know, or had contact with in graduate school, do. They may go present a paper two or three times a year, maybe a bit more often to local schools, but not fifty times. And it is, usually, to present actual research results or work in progress, not to lecture on whatever topic comes to mind.

[santamonica811]

To be fair, my sister (Urban Planning, had been head of her dept) has been going to the Bahamas for 2 weeks, on an annual basis, to give presentations and do research there. Always during the Montreal winter months.

My guess is that certain fields lend themselves to travel opportunities more than other fields.

But yes, 50 visits per calendar year, year-after-year, is an impressive amount. (In terms of tenture-track teachers building up their CVs; would a Zoom speaking appearance be counted as an official appearance at, say, a law school? I mean, if you give a lecture, and you're available afterwards for Q and A's, then I don't see why not...seems remarkably similar to what would go on in an in-person "real" visit.)

[IPLawyer]

His school (or whoever funds his position at his school) pays for it. Blackman came to my school a few years ago for a panel I invited him on campus speech in response to his previous de-platforming at CUNY Law. Blackman paid for his own flight and stay, ate our free pizza during the panel and ignored his fellow panelists. It was perplexingly rude and unprofessional according to my experiences.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Funding right-wing networking and seeding such as this is a large part of the Federalist Society's operation.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[naaz23]

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