If Albert Yoon wrote it, I’m in the line up to read it.  His work is always a pleasure.  Check out “The Labor Market for New Law Professors“, authored collaboratively with Tracey George.  (For other pieces by Albert, look here.)  The piece focuses on the US race to become a tenure-track law professor.  If you read it for nothing else, the detailed description of that process is fascinating relative to our much more humane-sounding Canadian process.  Yoon and George seek to explain the variables that predict success in the entry-level, tenure-track law teaching market.  They undertook a comprehensive survey of participants in the process and some of their results are surprising.