Summer Grants

In a pervious post I noted a small empirical project I undertook suggesting that tenure and a decrease in scholarship were closely related. My impression then was that the relationship shown by the numbers way understated the decline in post tenure writing. I found massive amounts of post tenure recycling -- a series of articles that became a book, multiple editions of basically the same casebook, the ideas presented in earlier articles dressed up in new clothes, edited books of readings containing previously published works. I do not claim to be a non offender on any of these.

I am wondering how the plans different schools have for summer compensation play into this. We know this much. Law professors generally perfer not to teach in the summer and they also like to get paid. So one way to increase scholarship --- perhaps the only way to do it with post tenure people -- is to withhold summer reseach grants unless the professor can show that he or she actually produced something with past summer grants. I do not mean a 5 page transcription of a speech or something that was actually finished in May and sent out in September.

So, here is a short poll (two questions) on how your school operates.

Does your school use summer grants as a means of encouraging scholarship?
	Yes
	No
	Inconsistently
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If so, how?
	Grants only to those who used a previous grant to write or complete a substantial article or book.
	Grants to those who are generally productive even if their work cannot be linked to previous grants
	A general expectation that one should use a grant for research but no serious enforcement.
	Available only to those who have taught in the summer recently.
	Available to all who ask.
	Other-- Please answer as a comment
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