October 2003
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“The Sushi Memo”
The now infamous Sushi Memo is here. I’m relieved to report that the Paul, Weiss partner who instructed a paralegal to spend time researching local sushi restaurants is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. Georgetown has a mandatory public interest service requirement for both its students and its faculty. This obviously doesn’t stop some…
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Yet more on the Socratic method…
…from a former law student turned philosophy PhD student here; and …from the Curmudgeonly Clerk here.
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Philosophy/Law Faculty Move
Mark Greenberg (philosophy of mind, philosophy of law), currently on tenure-track at Princeton, has accepted a joint law and philosophy offer from UCLA, to start next fall. That will give UCLA one of the strongest clusters of law-and-philosophy faculty in the US (besides Greenberg: Seana Shiffrin, Steven Munzer, and David Dolinko are all doing work…
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Vouchers
I have largely refrained–and will continue to largely refrain–from entering political debates in the blogosphere, especially with the hopeless folks at the Volokh Conspiracy (apart from Eugene’s always knowledgeable and often penetrating analysis of First Amendment questions, the quality of “political” comment and analysis there is not, shall we say, “cosmopolitan”). But I can not…
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Students Interested in Philosophy of Physics Take Note
Michael Dickson, a quite highly regarded, though still relatively young, philosopher of physics in the History and Philosophy of Science Program at Indiana University at Bloomington has accepted an appointment at the University of South Carolina (his undergraduate alma mater) for next year. Dickson, who has rebuffed offers and entreaties from even stronger departments than…
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More on Socratic Method in Law Schools
Professor Michael Froomkin of the University of Miami Law School writes: “I sometimes tell my classes that I don’t adopt the Socratic method because if I did they might feel obligated at the end of the semester to make me drink hemlock…”
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The “Socratic Method”: The Scandal of American Legal Education
So everyone who’s seen a movie about law school in America knows that law professors use something called “the Socratic method.” The professor asks a student a series of questions about some court case (which the students have read), eliciting the facts, the court’s decision, and the reasoning behind it. The professor sometimes tries to…
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He makes the Texas Taliban look sane…
Guess who said the following: “The Antichrist is probably a Jew alive in Israel today.” “Communism was the brainchild of German-Jewish intellectuals” “The Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew.” “How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy moneychangers, revolutionary…
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Penn Law’s Law Suit Against the Defense Department
Before the Yale Law faculty sued Rummy over the military’s discrimination against homosexuals (and, more precisely, the requirement that Law Schools cooperate with military recruitment, notwithstanding their own anti-discrimination policies), the Penn Law faculty filed suit first. Their complaint is here: Download file.
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Summary of Philosophy Faculty Moves and Hirings for 2002-03
10/19 UPDATE: I’m moving this to the front, since various corrections/additions have been made in some of the entries (Harvard, Columbia, Pittsburgh, among others). ============== The following summary of faculty moves and hirings at ranked PhD-granting programs that transpired since the last edition of the Report (from fall 2002) is intended to allow prospective students…
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Philosophy Job Placement
Although almost every American PhD-granting department now includes reasonably detailed placement information on its website, there are still some stragglers. One of the oddest is Columbia University, which even recently updated and redid its whole web site, though it still includes this wholly misleading information on job placement: “Recent graduates of the Ph.D. program have…
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Anti-Semitism, Disney
Thanks to the Malaysian Prime Minister, anti-semitism is the issue de moment (a full “jour” is too long for the blogosphere), which brings us to the irrelevant Gregg Easterbrook–another one of the horde of neocon blatherers–who has now apologized for his anti-semitic remarks. But as far as I’m concerned, that’s the least of it. For…
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“The Jews rule this world by proxy”
So says the Malaysian Prime Minister, anyway (for all the details, and lots of good links, see Drezner). But if we rule the world, how come I can’t: (1) find the perfect school for my 2nd-grader? or (2) find an Italian restaurant in Austin that wouldn’t be car-bombed by the Mafia in New York for…
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The “worldwide” readership for this blog
I found this data courtesy of my site counter service interesting, but perhaps no one else will (but that’s what my “navel-gazing” category is for!): Country of Origin This page lists the domains from which your traffic originates. Please note that some domains do not have a precise geographical meaning ; Network in particular is…
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Yale Law faculty sue over military policy discriminating against homosexuals
Forty-four members of the Yale Law School faculty have filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging, on constitutional and statutory grounds, the Department of Defense demand that the Law School permanently rescind its nondiscrimination policy as applied to military recruitment, notwithstanding the military’s exclusion based on sexual preference. You can read the complaint here:…
“Though not outright proof on its face” is where the heuristics from the conversation would inform next steps. Plagiarism of…