You're all wrong. Especially o.stoll.

Phenomenology is the lost science of determining the personality or character traits of an individual by studying the shape of the head and physical landscape of the said individual's scalp.

Another point that I'm curious about is the fact that a law faculty is presumably much cheaper to run than a healthsciences/medical faculty where a huge chunk of funding and finances must go into buying and maintaining very expensive laboratories and lab equipment. It just feels like a very different world.

Really? I take it he's completed the PhD already if he was applying for lectureship positions? Was he expected to publish in a couple of law reviews during the course of his PhD? What area of law did he conduct his PhD research in?

I've done a few interviews in my lifetime. I found that where I've been successful have mostly been interviews where I feel I've got nothing to lose as I walk into the room. So I'm feeling very relaxed and I think that influences the direction of the interview to take on a more conversational atmosphere.

At least you got close if they shortlisted you for an interview. Maybe next time.

Ah, so it has elements of anthropology-based observation as well as historical fact?

Is it really illegal or more a show of disrespect of tradition? Wait a minute, a judge could charge you with contempt of the court and send you to the slammer, so although it's not technically 'illegal', you could still end up in the slammer.

There is a law professor at my university who looks like a real rough down-trodden, torn-jeans, leather jacket wearing, handle bar moustache, harley riding biker. The first few times I saw him I thought he was either lost, or a mature-age student. Then of course I see his mug in the faculty website...

Yes but that was my initial query - I get the impression that there isn't such an acute 'publish or perish' atmosphere in the law faculty, as compared to the health sciences sector. I may be completely wrong though.

I'm almost afraid to ask what a 'spatchcock' is.

So yeah, it's not always about the money. Some of them see it as re-gaining some measure of their lives back after quitting the law firm.

A few of the academic staff in the law faculty (I checked out their online profiles) are part-time academics and part-time at the law firm so I guess they can have the best of both worlds.

I think it has a lot to do with freedom from the dreaded '6-minute-increment' and constant performance reviews. As I was saying before I've read about law profs who often talk about the freedom they have in pursuing their own research in their own time as law academics. It's a very different lifestyle compared to working in the constant pressure-cooker environment of a law firm.

What's theoretical history? Sounds interesting.

I usually have the opposite problem where I don't have enough words. I quite often don't see the point of using a hundred words to describe something which can be easily and visually summarised in a table, graph or diagram. Wish it was that easy though.

Any possible way you could compact huge chunks of research data/analysis word count into tables, graphs and diagrams?