February 2006
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Bush Boasts of Boost from bin Laden (Edmundson)
Not one to boast of his own mastery of politics, George W. Bush credits Osama bin Laden with helping nudge him over the top in 2004. As Reuters reports (Feb. 28): U.S. President George W. Bush said his 2004 re-election victory over Sen. John Kerry was inadvertently aided by Osama bin Laden, who issued a…
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A telling detail in the Zogby poll (M. Stanley)
Following up on Bill Edmundson’s post on the recent Zogby poll of U.S. troops in Iraq, I found one detail to be particularly telling. Fully 85% of troops polled said that the U.S. mission was to "retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9/11 attack".There seem to be some misconceptions here. Writing on Steve Sailer’s web…
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Estlund from Columbia to NYU
Cynthia Estlund (employment and labor law) at Columbia Law School has accepted the senior offer from New York University School of Law. She is the second senior faculty member to decamp to NYU in roughly the last year. One additional senior Columbia Law School faculty member is also entertaining an offer from NYU at the…
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Case Western’s Chodosh Named Utah Law Dean
Hiram Chodosh, who is currently Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the law school at Case Western Reserve University, has been named the new Dean of the law school at the University of Utah. The Utah press release is here.
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Zogby Poll of US Troops in Iraq (Edmundson)
Zogby International has just released a poll of US personnel stationed in Iraq. "Staying the course" isn’t the favorite option. Sadly, almost 90% think the U.S. invaded Iraq to punish Saddam for his role in 9/11. Commenting on the results, Nicholas Kristof, in "The Soldiers Speak, Will Pres. Bush Listen?" (New York Times Feb 28;…
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Adoption Legislation We Can All Support (Leiter)
Details here; an excerpt: If a Youngstown lawmaker’s proposal becomes Ohio law, Republicans would be barred from being adoptive parents. State Sen. Robert Hagan sent out e-mails to fellow lawmakers late Wednesday night, stating that he intends to “introduce legislation in the near future that would ban households with one or more Republican voters from…
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London Mayor Livingstone’s Suspension for “Anti-Semitic” Remarks (Leiter)
Here’s some information I had not seen elsewhere: The news that the elected Mayor of London was to be suspended from office for a month at the direction of an appointed tribunal startled Londoners…. The tribunal ruled that Livingstone had been "unnecessarily insensitive and offensive" to a Jewish journalist who approached him outside a private…
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When Do the Editorial Boards of the Student-Edited Law Reviews Change?
Professor Wenger (Thomas Jefferson) is collecting the information here.
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Penalver from Fordham to Cornell
Eduardo Penalver (property, law & religion), a tenure-track professor at Fordham and a visiting professor this year at Yale Law School, has accepted a mid-level untenured (but tenure-stream) post at Cornell Law School.
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Dubai Our Debt, But Not Our Assets? (Edmundson)
Dubya’s Dubai travails are indeed a case of tables-turned on the terror-monger. But, as Nicholas von Hoffman points out in "Free Trade Planet," The Nation (Feb. 27), there are bigger chickens coming home to roost: From a business point of view, the hollering and carrying on boils down to one kind of question: Are the…
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Dennett on Religion, Again (Leiter)
Thanks to Varol Akman (Philosophy, Bilkent) for calling to my attention a far more responsible (though certainly quite critical) review of Daniel Dennett’s new book on religion. Perhaps someone can send this to Leon Wieseltier, so he can learn what a grown-up, critical review of a book looks like.
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Colyvan from Queensland to Sydney
Mark Colyvan (metaphysics; philosophy of science, logic, and mathematics) at the University of Queensland has accepted the senior offer from the University of Sydney, where he will hold a five-year research professorship, which will then revert to a regular professorial post thereafter. Sydney may be making additional senior appointments in the near future.
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Solum’s Entry-Level Hiring Report for 2005-06
Professor Solum is now collecting data on entry-level hires; see here for the instructions about how to report information. UPDATE: Dan Filler (Law, Alabama) proposes to do the same for lateral hiring, since I will be limiting my coverage to schools that figure in my law school rankings, as noted previously.
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NLJ Article on Law Professors Blogging
Here. (Thanks to Paul Caron for the pointer.) An excerpt: As more law professors are tapping away at their computers on blogs that cover everything from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to the death penalty, they also may be chipping away at the ivory tower. An increasing number of law professors are using blogs-online journals or newsletters-to…
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For Fans of Syracuse Basketball (J. Stanley)
We may have lost to Georgetown this weekend, but we’ve got Etan Thomas.
“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”