February 2006
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Podgor from Georgia State to Stetson
Ellen Podgor (criminal law, white collar crime, international criminal law) at Georgia State University has accepted an appointment at Stetson University in Florida, where she will be Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Distance Education.
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Theocrats Still Have Their Sights Set on South Carolina (Leiter)
This must be pretty scary for the friends of the Enlightenment in that state: From his home in rural Calaveras County, Calif., Cory Burnell keeps close watch over the news in South Carolina, and he likes what he sees. Turning the state into a conservative Christian Promised Land will be easier than he had thought,…
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Harvard Makes Offer to Mark Tushnet
Harvard Law School has made a tenured offer to Mark Tushnet–leading figure in constitutional law, legal history, and Critical Legal Studies–at Georgetown University. That would be a huge loss for Georgetown, if he goes. On the other hand, Georgetown recently hired his daughter, Rebecca Tushnet (intellectual property) away from New York University, where she had…
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Hills from Michigan to NYU
Roderick Hills, Jr. (constitutional law, local government law, education law) at the University of Michigan Law School has accepted the tenured offer from New York University School of Law. That’s certainly a strong hire for NYU, and a loss for Michigan–though Michigan is otherwise having a great year of its own in lateral hiring (Radin,…
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iPeach (Edmundson)
Impeachment talk is welling up from the magma of private discussion, and fumeroles are starting to appear on the media surface. Bonnie Erbe, a Scripps-Howard columnist, bluntly states that it’s "Time to Impeach Bush" (Feb. 20). A Zogby International poll taken last month showed that Americans by a 52-43 % margin favor impeaching George W.…
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Robert and Elizabeth Scott from UVA to Columbia
Robert Scott (contracts, commercial law), the former Dean at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Elizabeth Scott (family law, juvenile justice, property) have accepted permanent, senior offers from Columbia Law School, where they have been visiting part-time the past several years. That’s a major appointment for Columbia, and a real loss for UVA.
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Funny Moments in Student Journalism (Leiter)
I generally like The Daily Texan, but this howler from Monday’s paper is too good to let pass in silence. This is from an article on a conference on campus organized by "Historians Against the War": U.S. citizens must understand the United States’ history of empiricism in order to speak out against and stop the…
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Resignation of Harvard President Summers
I have a few comments (and some links) here.
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Famous Political Pundit Says “God is dead” and Hilary Has No Chance (Leiter)
Well, OK, he’s not famous, but he’s surely more sensible than the famous ones, and even if he is a self-described drunk Wisconsin law student, he’s probably right anyway: It’s not that I hate the Democratic Party. On the contrary, I think the Republican Party is just as chock-full of penguin-fuckers as the Democrats. And…
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Resignation of Harvard President Summers (Leiter)
Larry Summers, President of Harvard, has resigned. (Thanks to the many readers who e-mailed me links.) What Kieran Healy (Sociology, Arizona) says about the resignation is consistent with what I’ve heard from various folks, namely, that his unlovely bedside manner cost him a lot of support. Here are my comments on the earlier brouhaha about…
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Outcry Among Top Republicans Stuns Bush (Edmundson)
Misreading his "base" in a manner eerily reminsicent of the Harriet Miers debacle, George W. Bush has again infuriated powerful Republicans. The New York Times (Feb. 21) reports: President Bush said this afternoon that he would veto any legislation seeking to block the administration’s decision to allow a state-owned company from Dubai to assume control…
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NSA Scandal: No Reason for Pessimism … (Hellie)
At least not in excess of the usual, in light of the Senate Intel Ctee’s recent cover-up activities. While I agree with most of Professor Wilson’s post immediately below this, Greenwald provides an excellent morale-boost here — in brief: of course Bush lackey Roberts is trying to cover up the NSA scandal; the Bush Gang…
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Update on an Earlier Announcement: Brandon to Stay at Vanderbilt
Constitutional law scholar Mark Brandon has decided, for personal reasons, to remain at Vanderbilt, and so will not take up a Chair at the University of Alabama as reported earlier.
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Political angst (Wilson)
Remember existential angst? Neither do I. OK, maybe once in a while I experience a vague yearning for meaning, but then I read some Frege and feel better right away. But seriously, folks, there’s a new distinctively political angst in town (and I’m not just talking about that uneasy feeling you get when you hear…
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“Liberal bias” in Philosophy? (Leiter)
The following comment was submitted anonymously to the thread about Liz Harman’s move to a tenure-track post at Princeton: Would it be totally unreasonable to take Ms. Harman as a case in point for liberal bias in academe? If you take a look at one of her papers, Click to access Potentiality.pdf she argues that…
I have solved complex math problems without any ‘inner speech’. Having solved a problem, one may then translate the solution…