May 2006
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More on the Alleged Indictment of Karl Rove (Leiter)
Truthout.org addresses the issues here.
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What is Thomas Nagel Thinking? (Leiter)
Thomas Nagel begins his review of Michael Sandel’s new book in The New York Review of (Each Other’s) Books (May 25, 2006) with the following quite startling remark: The political system of the United States manages to contain…a remarkable range of moral, ideological, and religious conflicts. The conflicts are not so severe as those that…
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Bibliography of Work on “Global Justice” (Leiter)
Patrick O’Donnell has kindly sent along this bibliography on global justice: Download global_justice_bibliography.doc . Hopefully, some readers will find it of value. Feel free to suggest additions in the comments section.
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Penn Makes Bid for Yoo at Vanderbilt
Christopher Yoo (law & technology, copyright, telecommunications law) at Vanderbilt University has received a senior offer from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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Meares from Chicago to Yale
Tracey Meares (criminal law & procedure) at the University of Chicago Law School has accepted a senior offer from Yale Law School. Meares’s former colleague and occasional co-author Dan Kahan (criminal law & procedure) moved from Chicago to Yale in 1999. Yale, which also hired Heather Gerken (election law, voting rights) from Harvard this year,…
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Congratulations UT Law Class of 2006!
It’s been a pleasure and privilege to have had the opportunity to work with many of you during your time in the Law School. I’m sure I speak for all my colleagues in wishing you much professional success and personal happiness in the years ahead. I look forward to seeing many of you at tomorrow’s…
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Congratulations UT Law Class of 2006!
It’s been a pleasure and privilege to have had the opportunity to work with many of you during your time in the Law School. I’m sure I speak for all my colleagues in wishing you much professional success and personal happiness in the years ahead. I look forward to seeing many of you at tomorrow’s…
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Bush’s Clock (Leiter)
A reader sent this joke along (not sure of the original source): A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, "What are all those clocks?" St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on…
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Top Producers of New Law Teachers 2003-2006
Utilizing the data that Larry Solum has compiled for three years on where newly hired law teachers earned their first degree (here and here and here), I’ve compiled a list of the top 15 producers of new law teachers during this time period. (Note: Solum’s listings aren’t comprehensive, as some appointments do not get reported…
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Friday Poem: “Address to the Converted”
Address to the Converted 1How wonderful to preach to youTo clutch this podium and play with wordsTo know that you are with me irrespectiveThat whatever I say you will strive to believeIt is an honor for me to indulge myself …
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Christian Fascism, Again (Leiter)
The actual Taliban have nothing on these scary folks (footnotes omitted): "I would would execute gays only if we catch them indulging in sodomy," Gary DeMar, popular Christian evangelical minister is quoted in the December, 2005 issue of Mother Jones…. Gary DeMar stated he’d execute gays only if they were caught indulging in sodomy, but…
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“Equality and the New Global Order” (Leiter)
There is a quite informative account of this recent conference (organized by Mathias Risse) here.
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Rosen from Oxford to Harvard Gov’t Dept
Michael Rosen, one of the leading writers on 19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy (especially political philosophy) and who is presently Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford University, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Government at Harvard University, to start in the fall. That’s a major loss for Continental philosophy at Oxford. The Harvard…
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Chicago Makes Bid for McAdams, Malani
The University of Chicago Law School has offers outstanding to Richard McAdams (criminal law and procedure, law & social norms) at the University of Illinois and Anup Malani (health law, corporate law, law and economics) at the University of Virginia. UPDATE (5/19): Malani has accepted the Chicago offer.
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Draft Faculty Lists for Fall 2006 PGR: May 17 Version
UPDATE (May 22): The new version is here. I’m uploading a new version, and creating a new comments section (no anonymous posts–and post your corrections here, please don’t e-mail me), of the draft faculty lists for the fall 2006 PGR surveys: Download pgr_faculty_lists_for_2006.doc . Please read the intro material carefully. This list reflects the several…
If you don’t want your journal to publish papers that are written by AI (and I think you should not,…