May 2004
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Shoben from Illinois Law to Nevada
Elaine Shoben, Edward W. Cleary Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law and an expert in employment discrimination law, has accepted an endowed chair at the still relatively new William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Nevada has really done better than any law school…
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Law Fellows of the British Academy
The list of law faculty elected to the British Academy–the British analogue of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (except that all the sciences are recognized solely by The Royal Society)–is here. In addition, the British Academy has elected as “Corresponding Fellows” a handful of American law faculty: Judge Guido Calabresi of the 2nd…
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Philosophers in the British Academy
The British Academy is the British counterpart to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (with the one difference that all scholarly achievement in the sciences is recognized by The Royal Society in Britain). Current Philosophy Fellows of the British Academy are here. In addition, there are a small number of non-retired American philosophers who…
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Can the President Imprison Anyone, Forever?
Here’s a good explanation of why the Supreme Court had better answer that question in the negative.
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Philosopher Jenkins Named Notre Dame President
Medieval philosophy scholar the Rev. John Jenkins at the University of Notre Dame has been named the school’s new President.
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Vote for Bush, Send Your Daughters to War Too
I spoke too soon: see this: “U.S. Eyes Proposal to Draft Women.”
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Law School Membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
UPDATE (5/5) with corrections By popular demand, here is a listing of the top law schools by the number of non-retired faculty elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; see the caveats about what this means here. 1. Yale University (19) (B. Ackerman, L. Brilmayer, G. Calabresi [part-time], S. Carter, *M.…
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More on the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The annual announcement of newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (as well as the National Academy of Sciences, to which only three philosophers have been elected in recent decades: the late W.V.O. Quine; Patrick Suppes, who is emeritus at Stanford; and Brian Skyrms at the University of California at Irvine)…
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New Philosophy Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announced…
…here. They are: Ned Block (New York University) Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) D. Anthony Martin (University of California, Los Angeles) Peter Railton (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Samuel Scheffler (University of California, Berkeley) Nice to see two of the ten I had singled out a few weeks ago as deserving election made it…
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New Law Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announced…
…here. They are: Philip Bobbitt (University of Texas, Austin) George Fletcher (Columbia University) Michael Graetz (Yale University) Joel Handler (University of California, Los Angeles) Daniel Meltzer (Harvard University) Thomas Merrill (Columbia University) Diane Wood (U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit; Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School–and also UT Law Class of 1975!) I was…
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The Sloganator…
…is here. From a friend in Chicago: “Apparently, the official Bush/Cheney re-election website set up a vehicle via which Bushies could create their own banners on-line and then print them out with the official Bush/Cheney emblem and “Paid for by Bush/Cheney campaign” at the bottom. Ever enterprising, some folks of an entirely different persuasion found…
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Intelligence and Political Predilections
Yet another contribution on this popular blogospheric topic. I offer it strictly for amusement, without vouching for its accuracy or the merits of the approach. And I reiterate my standing view that the best grounds for thinking a disproportionate number of right-wing positions are intellectually bankrupt is that, on examination, they turn out to be.
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Not Getting the Job…
…here’s a nice illustration, via a physics professor at the University of Chicago, of why not getting an academic job is a far more common experience, even for the fortunate, than actually getting one.
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Andrew Sullivan…Again
Speaking of the morally repulsive, here’s Andrew Sullivan on the abuse and torture of prisoners in Iraq: “The only story in Europe and the Middle East right now are the images of some U.S. soldiers humiliating and mock-torturing some Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison. The images are indeed revolting, appalling, and shameful. They are…
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Creationist Theme Park
Many folks were kind enough to forward this story about an amusement park for creationists. (Pharyngula also comments here.) Doug Keller, a UT law student, noted that “a creationist theme park has opened up to combat the propaganda at Disney World, giving the public a fair and balanced viewpoint about evolution that only Bill O’Reily…
Sorry, in the *20* years since it was published.