November 2006
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Moyers on War at West Point (Leiter)
I commend to your attention this elegantly wrought speech about war, those who fight them, and those who make others fight them.
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Legal and Political Philosopher Green Accepts New Jurisprudence Chair at Oxford
Details here. He will continue to be a regular part-time faculty member at Texas.
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Senator-Elect Webb from Virginia Tempted to “Slug” Bush (Leiter)
Ruchira Paul has the details.
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Leslie Green Accepts New Jurisprudence Chair at Oxford
My part-time colleague Leslie Green, who has made major contributions to legal and political philosophy, has accepted the new Professorship of Philosophy of Law at Oxford University, which also includes a Fellowship at Balliol College. The Professorship, a new statutory chair, was created upon the retirement of Joseph Raz from his personal Chair, also at…
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The Most Controversial Podium Visitor in America?
Inside Higher Ed has an informative piece on the controversy brewing at the University of Minnesota Law School regarding a one-term podium visit for Robert Delahunty from St. Thomas, co-author with Berkeley’s John Yoo of the now notorious "torture memo" (which generated its own, earlier, controversy for Professor Yoo at Boalt.) UPDATE: Here is a…
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New Legal History Blog
Here, from the legal historian Mary Dudziak at USC.
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Impressive honesty (Wilson)
Jimmy Carter must have known that even the title of Palestine Peace Not Apartheid would draw fire, in daring to implicate Israel in systematic racial oppression of Palestinians. But evidently he’s had it up to here with this particular denial of the obvious, especially as perpetuated by his fellow Democrats: [Good Morning America host] Robin…
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War of the Orwellians (Edmundson)
Over at Balkinization, David Luban analyzes the curious debate about whether to call the Iraq civil war a civil war. Comments open. (The war on terror, now that’s a war!)
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Most Cited Books in Moral/Political/Legal Phil and in Phil of Mind/Language in SEP
Yet again, courtesy of Professor Schwitzgebel. These lists strike me as a bit less idiosyncratic, especially at the high end, than the other lists (putting aside the surprising number of references to Judith Butler’s silly work, that is!).
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What Will be the Effects of a New U of California Law School on Existing Law Schools?
As noted, the University of California at Irvine has received approval to start a new UC system law school, the first in several decades (UC Davis, in Northern California, was the last), and only the second in Southern California (Northern California has three: Davis, Berkeley, and UC Hastings in San Francisco). Ethan Lieb (who teaches…
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“The Right to be Lazy” (Leiter)
Via the Virtua Stoa, I learn of an on-line version of this forgotten classic by Paul Lafargue (husband of Laura Marx, daughter of Karl); an excerpt: A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. This delusion drags in its train the individual and social woes which for…
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How to Choose a Graduate Program in Philosophy (Leiter)
Here is a quite sensible set of remarks by Keith DeRose (Yale).
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Posner on “Pragmatic Adjudication” (Leiter)
Last Thursday at the University of Chicago Law School, Judge Posner and I discussed this topic in a public forum. More information, and a link to the podcast of the session, is available here.
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Posner on “Pragmatic Adjudication”
Last Thursday at the University of Chicago Law School, Judge Posner and I discussed this topic in a public forum. More information, and a link to the podcast of the session, is available here.
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…