February 2006
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Gerald Dworkin’s rhetorical question (J. Stanley)
Over at left2right, Gerald Dworkin poses the following rhetorical question: If you wanted someone to aid you in making a difficult ethical decision about medical treatment for your child would you be better off consulting a moral philosopher, or a physician who has dealt with similar cases for 30 years? I know whom I would…
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Who made the most accurate predictions about the outcome of the Iraq war? (Hellie)
I’ve been hunting around for the answer to this question a bit lately. Chomsky did an OK job, responsibly (and more-or-less accurately) warning against a potential death toll rising to the hundreds of thousands. But he seems to have been a bit squishy on the chemical and biological weapons issue, advancing a healthy but not…
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Iraq “Awash in Weapons” (Edmundson)
David Wood’s report from May 2004 explains why Iraq now possesses Weapons in Massive numbers for its own Destruction. [Update, Feb. 27: The death toll from the orgy of of sectarian violence in Iraq is reported to stand at 1,300, or three times the earlier, official, figures.]
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Friday Poem: “Missing Person”
Missing Person At tax time I discharge my obligationTo whatever grateful nationIs inclined to let me be Myself I arouse no interestMy correspondents are computersThat sense an affinity My calls are all wrong numbersFor a stranger named MauriceWho’s not at all like me Yesterday I returned from traveling(But where could I have been)My mailbox moldy…
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Gulati from Georgetown to Duke
Mitu Gulati, whose teaching and research range widely over corporate law, securities regulation, employment law and discrimination, among other areas, has accepted a senior offer from Duke Law School; he is currently Professor of Law at Georgetown.
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Tushnet from Georgetown to Harvard; also Texas Lateral Offers to Rodriguez, Whittington
Mark Tushnet (constitutional law and history, Critical Legal Studies), longtime member of the Georgetown law faculty, has accepted the senior offer from Harvard Law School. This is turning into the year of very high-profile lateral moves. Tushnet is the most-cited member of the Georgetown faculty, and one of the most-cited law professors in the U.S. …
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A Finely Wrought Essay on Bolivia (Leiter)
Here, by Galeano. I recommend reading the whole (short) essay.
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A Comment on Editorial Comments about Faculty Moves–and Some Policies on Faculty News
A student reader writes with the following reasonable query: As a law school hopeful participating in the current application cycle, I read your Law School Reports with interest. I’m especially intrigued by your characterization of Mark Tushnet’s possible move from Georgetown to Harvard as a "huge loss" for Georgetown. Could you be a bit more…
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Parry from Pittsburgh to Lewis & Clark
John Parry (constitutional law, civil rights, criminal law), a tenured associate professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh, has accepted a tenured post at Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College, where he is currently visiting.
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South Dakota tests Scalito [UPDATED] (Hellie)
South Dakota has just passed an unconsitutional anti-abortion bill, in a deliberate attempt to give the Roberts court a quick opportunity to overturn Roe. An especially odd aspect of this frightening turn of events is the promise by an anonymous donor to give SD $1 million for legal defense. UPDATE: this post was a bit…
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Dawkins surrounded by idiots (Hellie)
In two episodes of his UK Channel 4 TV show, eminent British biologist Richard Dawkins visits the heart of darkness — Colorado Springs, USA, ground zero of irrationalist bronze age Christian fundamentalism. In the seven minute video clip linked here, Dawkins converses with the creepily toothy pastor Ted Haggart, comparing his sermon to a Nuremberg…
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Happiness = S+U+V (Edmundson)
"All we want in this world is crazy beautiful happiness," said Delores del Rio, expounding her version of eudaemonism, in Flying Down to Rio. For a guy who seems not to have heard of Epicurus, John Lanchester, writing in The New Yorker (Feb. 27) does a nice job reviewing two recent books: Jonathan Haidt (Psychology,…
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Update on Georgetown Offers
An update on the earlier post about three Georgetown offers: Randy Barnett (constitutional law, contracts), currently at Boston University, has accepted the offer from Georgetown; and Derek Jinks (international law), currently at the University of Texas at Austin, has declined the Georgetown offer, and so will remain (happily!) at Texas.
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Ohio State Makes Offer to Samuels at King’s (London)
Ohio State University has made a senior offer to Richard Samuels (philosophy of psychology and cognitive science) at King’s College, London.
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Michigan Salary Data
Paul Caron has made it available, though note that Lempert’s salary is for 12 months, the others are for 9 months. Comparison with the earlier UVA and Berkeley data is a bit tricky, since some of the UVA figures were, I believe, for 9-month periods, others (the majority) for 12-months. More of the Berkeley data…
No-one knows how “the long run” is going to go in AI in general, and detection in particular. Right now,…