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Creativity and Law Faculties

By Rob Heverly

Kelly and Eric have both said their good-byes, and after spending a couple of months here, it is my time to wander on, as well. I've thoroughly enjoyed being here, and am grateful to Dan and the Lounge for the invitation. I started out back in August hesitantly replying to some questions posed to me as a current faculty candidate going through the AALS process. I haven't talked too much more about that process, and that won't change tonight, but I hope that once things are done, Dan and the rest of the Loungers (should that be capitalized?) will have me back for a follow-up post or two on the process and how it turned out.

In the meantime, I'll be joining the folks over at Madisonian.net to do my IP/IT/Information Law thing, but will also be here lurking and occasionally commenting.

For her sign-off post, Kelly brought us questions about school pets, and Eric Fink brought us fly fishing (I used to want to learn to fly fish, but now I think I could spend that same amount of time in the woods, and maybe even wading in the water, taking photographs -- not that I have time to do that right now, but still). For my last foray here, I want to start with this:

In the city fields
contemplating cherry-trees
strangers are like friends

Issa

And with that, I would like to ask: are there people in your schools who are creative outside of the law, but still with the written word? Are they novelists [book link]? Playwrites? Fiction writers (example [pdf])? Are they tenured? How do your colleagues view their non-law activities?

Thanks again to Dan and the gang for inviting me here and for being so welcoming during my visit.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on September 30, 2009 (boomark / email).