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Paul L. Caron, Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, has been named Associate Dean of Faculty. "I am delighted that Paul has agreed to serve in this important position," said College of Law Dean Louis D. Bilionis. "His primary role will be to help us achieve the goals of our Strategic Plan to recruit and retain a faculty of outstanding and diverse scholars and constantly develop, support and showcase them. He will also take a leadership role in strengthening the College's support of all aspects of our faculty's work, including administrative, library and technological support for faculty research and teaching."
"I am honored to have the opportunity to work with Dean Bilionis and our extraordinary faculty in this new position," said Professor Caron. "I would stack the breadth and depth of our faculty against any of our competitors-I know of no other law school in which every faculty member has published a book or law review article over the past two years. Since 2000, our faculty has published 25 books and articles in the top 15 publishers and law reviews-more than one per faculty member."
Professor Caron was the inaugural Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the College (1999-2001), co-authoring an article on the experience with former Dean Joseph Tomain. The Associate Dean for Research Position: Encouraging and Promoting Scholarship, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 233 (2001) (Leadership in Legal Education Symposium). This article has been used as a template in creating a similar position at other law schools. In addition, many of the initiatives he spearheaded - Summer Scholarship Series, Scholar Exchange Program, SSRN Public Law & Legal Theory Journal, and Faculty News-have continued to enrich and showcase College faculty's work.
As one of the leading entrepreneurial scholars in the country, Professor Caron is at the forefront on two of the cutting edge issues of legal education-law school rankings and technological innovations in law scholarship and teaching. He conceived and edited Tax Stories (Foundation Press, 2003), providing an in-depth look at the 10 leading tax cases. This book has spawned the Law Stories Series, for which he serves as Series Editor. He also organized a Board of Editors of leading tax scholars that designed a Graduate Tax Series of books for use in tax LL.M. programs and published by LexisNexis, for which he serves as Series Editor.
Professor Caron is the creator and editor of TaxProf Blog, the country's most popular legal blog edited by a single law professor. He, along with Joe Hodnicki-the Associate Director of Library Operations-launched the Law Professor Blogs Network, an affiliation of over 50 blogs in other areas of law. Professor Caron organized the first scholarly conference on blogging (Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship) at Harvard Law School in April 2006, with the papers published in the Washington University Law Review. He has spoken on the emergence of blogs as new vehicles of scholarly communication at various symposia and conferences.
Professor Caron has a strong interest in the topic of law school rankings. With UC Professor Rafael Gely, he wrote one of the most influential articles on legal education and law school rankings in recent years, What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004). This led to the development of the first scholarly conference on law school rankings in 2005, with the papers published in the Indiana Law Journal. His article, Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2006) (with University of Texas Law Professor Bernard Black), has spawned a new metric for law school and law faculty rankings. He also worked with University of Texas Law Professor Brian Leiter in redesigning and launching a law school rankings web site. Both the article and rankings web site were featured in the Wall Street Journal last week.
Professor Caron was one of the first law professors to use "clicker" technology in the classroom. He explained the pedagogy behind the technology in Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning, 54 J. Legal Educ. 551 (2004) (with Rafael Gely), which was featured in the New York Times. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors for CALI -The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, the leading organization dedicated to law school technology, he is a featured speaker at law faculty colloquia across the country on this topic.
Contact Information:
Sherry English
513.556.0090
sherry.english@uc.edu
