Beth Wilensky
@bethwilensky.bsky.social
#LegalWriting Professor at University of Michigan Law School. #WilenskyOnStyle. Cardinals and cooking and kids oh my. https://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/beth-h-wilensky
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the absence of a CLE requirement motivates new faculty members to drop other bar licensures (i.e., if they are barred in a jurisdiction w/ a CLE requirement) in favor of joining the Michigan bar.
September 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the absence of a CLE requirement motivates new faculty members to drop other bar licensures (i.e., if they are barred in a jurisdiction w/ a CLE requirement) in favor of joining the Michigan bar.
It's not that, in the hiring process, we care whether you are barred in MI. (Even for clinical faculty!) But once here, it's relatively easy to become barred in MI. Plus the law school pays your dues and there's no CLE requirement. So I think (just as a general sense) that people do it.
September 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
It's not that, in the hiring process, we care whether you are barred in MI. (Even for clinical faculty!) But once here, it's relatively easy to become barred in MI. Plus the law school pays your dues and there's no CLE requirement. So I think (just as a general sense) that people do it.
OMG I love this throwback. Miss those days.
August 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
OMG I love this throwback. Miss those days.
And @abeeinthebonnet.bsky.social, Ellie went to our local yarn store and pronounced it excellent. In case you ever want to come visit. =)
July 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
And @abeeinthebonnet.bsky.social, Ellie went to our local yarn store and pronounced it excellent. In case you ever want to come visit. =)
Also, it’s possible that we are two people with one online persona?
July 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Also, it’s possible that we are two people with one online persona?
It’s amazing how realistic AI images look these days.
July 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It’s amazing how realistic AI images look these days.
I can! Plenty of high school students write like this when they feel insecure about their writing. They often resort to this sort of high-minded-sounding drivel to disguise the absence of a coherent idea.
Wait, I'm being told that this writer . . . isn't a high school student?
Wait, I'm being told that this writer . . . isn't a high school student?
July 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I can! Plenty of high school students write like this when they feel insecure about their writing. They often resort to this sort of high-minded-sounding drivel to disguise the absence of a coherent idea.
Wait, I'm being told that this writer . . . isn't a high school student?
Wait, I'm being told that this writer . . . isn't a high school student?
I second the rec for Sushi Go. Make sure you buy the Sushi Go Party edition bc it has a lot more variations which keep it from getting stale.
July 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I second the rec for Sushi Go. Make sure you buy the Sushi Go Party edition bc it has a lot more variations which keep it from getting stale.
This has me wondering if you are even a professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
June 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This has me wondering if you are even a professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
My two recent recommend-them-to-everyone books are (1) Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and (2) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Both are beautifully written on every level. And both are those rare books that I haven't stopped thinking about.
June 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My two recent recommend-them-to-everyone books are (1) Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and (2) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Both are beautifully written on every level. And both are those rare books that I haven't stopped thinking about.
That's useful info. I can see how the admin might find this material inappropriate at the 9th-grade level. (Though my point about high school girls being catcalled stands.) But still seems like the answer is to a convo w/ the teacher. I'll be interested to learn whether there really was no process.
June 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
That's useful info. I can see how the admin might find this material inappropriate at the 9th-grade level. (Though my point about high school girls being catcalled stands.) But still seems like the answer is to a convo w/ the teacher. I'll be interested to learn whether there really was no process.
So - without knowing more details, admittedly - this seems like either a bad decision on the merits or, minimally, an lousy process. If the admin learned about the material and disapproved of it, did they tell the teacher that and direct her to change the syllabus? /fin
June 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
So - without knowing more details, admittedly - this seems like either a bad decision on the merits or, minimally, an lousy process. If the admin learned about the material and disapproved of it, did they tell the teacher that and direct her to change the syllabus? /fin
This was a public high school with an outstanding English program. I was challenged as a thinker and a writer. I was treated like the budding adult that I was. That class laid the foundation for a lifetime love of reading and writing. /4
June 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This was a public high school with an outstanding English program. I was challenged as a thinker and a writer. I was treated like the budding adult that I was. That class laid the foundation for a lifetime love of reading and writing. /4
On my 1st day of AP English, my teacher told us that "without sex and Jesus, there wouldn't be literature." She said she assumed we knew enough about sex, and assigned us each part of the Bible to read and digest for the class, so we could recognize sexual and religious themes in the work we read./3
June 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
On my 1st day of AP English, my teacher told us that "without sex and Jesus, there wouldn't be literature." She said she assumed we knew enough about sex, and assigned us each part of the Bible to read and digest for the class, so we could recognize sexual and religious themes in the work we read./3
High school girls are subject to catcalls and more - all sorts of gross stuff - when they walk down the street. But we shouldn't assign poems that engage with that experience, capture what they feel, validate that it's wrong to be treated that way, and show them how art can reflect their world? /2
June 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
High school girls are subject to catcalls and more - all sorts of gross stuff - when they walk down the street. But we shouldn't assign poems that engage with that experience, capture what they feel, validate that it's wrong to be treated that way, and show them how art can reflect their world? /2
Mine is: "If Antonin Scalia had been alive and well and serving on the Supreme Court on election day 2016."
June 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Mine is: "If Antonin Scalia had been alive and well and serving on the Supreme Court on election day 2016."
Hmmm. I want to know more. Something doesn't add up.
June 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Hmmm. I want to know more. Something doesn't add up.
Wait, what? I haven't heard anything about this and I can't find anything online. Any idea where I can find details?
June 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Wait, what? I haven't heard anything about this and I can't find anything online. Any idea where I can find details?
Ah, I see. “current faculty” reads like it means the UMich faculty. (Are *any* of the faculty plaintiffs members of the UMich faculty? I had assumed they aren’t but I haven’t read the complaint.)
June 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Ah, I see. “current faculty” reads like it means the UMich faculty. (Are *any* of the faculty plaintiffs members of the UMich faculty? I had assumed they aren’t but I haven’t read the complaint.)
“allowed” is a weird word to use here. And in any event, I’m not aware of anyone on the faculty who knows who the student is. (Admittedly, I haven’t asked anyone, but the student’s choice to proceed anonymously speaks for itself.)
June 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“allowed” is a weird word to use here. And in any event, I’m not aware of anyone on the faculty who knows who the student is. (Admittedly, I haven’t asked anyone, but the student’s choice to proceed anonymously speaks for itself.)