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By Mark Obbie

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Buyout-bound Linda Greenhouse won't stay idle for long. She's landing at Yale Law School in January, where, according to a YLS press release she will be:

the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow. In that capacity, she will advise on the framing and development of the new Yale Law School Law and Media Program (LAMP), work on her own research about the Supreme Court and constitutional law, teach through lectures and seminars, and participate in various Law School activities, including Yale Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic.

In an e-mail, Greenhouse said that her teaching duties will start in the fall of 2009, but what she'll teach isn't certain yet. I asked her if she's taught before. She replied:

I haven't ever taught a whole course before, but I've done a lot of academic lecturing. For two academic years, 2004 and 2005, I was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, and lectured in colleges all over the place.

I'll be curious to see how much of a media spin her course or courses take, given the purpose of the law school's Law and Media Program, which describes itself this way:

The Yale Law School’s Law and Media Program, in which Ms. Greenhouse will be Journalist-in-Residence, is supported by an earlier challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, to build upon the Law School’s longstanding focus on the intersection of law, media, and journalism. The Law and Media Program is directed toward Yale Law School students who plan to be journalists, advocates for journalists, policymakers, or leaders in the media industry; working journalists who seek a deeper understanding of law, media, and policy; and scholars who study cutting-edge issues of law and media. The Program’s co-directors are Professors Jack Balkin and Robert Post ’77. The Law School has also long offered the degree of Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.), a one-year law degree for journalists seeking an intensive immersion in legal thinking to better educate their audiences upon their return to journalism.

Greenhouse is not a lawyer, but she has a master of studies in law under a longtime program at Yale that was supported by the Ford Foundation at the time Greenhouse studied there, and later by the Knight Foundation. The program is less prominent now than in the Knight days, because it no longer gives journalists a stipend and a scholarship to attend. I've asked Dean Harold Koh what exactly the school hopes to do in "framing and development" of the Law and Media Program. I'll post what I learn from him.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on March 26, 2008 (boomark / email).