This year at USD law school I am chairing our appointments committee and we are focusing on hiring an environmental and/or energy law candidate, whether entry-level or lateral who will assume institutional leadership in the field given that we have a program, concentration, journal and an Energy Policy Initiatives Center (EPIC). We decided to not send a team this weekend to DC. Given our focused search, we believe we can identify the best candidates through the FAR forms, speaking to references, to the candidates over the phone/skype and reading their scholarship. I heard some other schools are following this pattern of skipping DC and our guru Paul Horwitz suggested I post something about this trend. It seems to have been working rather well on our end though it is always nice to have the opportunity to meet two dozen wonderful new scholars in a condensed period of time.
Posted by Orly Lobel on October 18, 2014 at 07:22 PM
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Yes following somewhat the time frames of FRC but looking at applications on a rolling basis.
Posted by: orly lobel | Oct 20, 2014 12:05:14 AM
Are you following the same general time frame as if you were attending the FRC? I ask for somewhat selfish reasons, since I am doing a focused search in the energy area, and did not sign up for the FRC. I’ve had mixed success with that approach, getting one interview thus far.
Posted by: Anon | Oct 19, 2014 7:18:28 PM
Yes, this appears to be a new trend.
Posted by: PRT | Oct 19, 2014 10:38:02 AM
Chairing, Hiring but Not Attending FRC
Posted by: bestmishu | Oct 18, 2014 8:40:48 PM