December 2006
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Has the Blogging Phenomenon Peaked?
The growing number of "abandoned" law blogs would seem to suggest so, as Peter Spiro (Temple) discusses.
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Why the Sudden Rush to Execute Saddam? (Leiter)
Here is an hypothesis, hopefully mistaken. UPDATE (Dec 30): The U.S. and Saddam, a useful overview here. (JAN 2: But on the CIA and Saddam in the early 1960s, see also this.) ANOTHER: Also timely. AND ONE MORE: Thoughts on the execution.
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Freshman from Miami to Hastings
Clark Freshman (alternative dispute resolution) at the University of Miami Law School has accepted a senior offer from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he was a visiting professor in 2006.
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Biblical Stories Told Via Lego Blocks (Leiter)
Via The Virtua Stoa, I discover this rather charming website in which Biblical stories are illustrated with lego figures and scenes. Having been with the kids to Legoland in California last summer, I knew there was a lot you could do with legos, but this is a new one! Although I’m sure this was not…
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Three Finalists for Duke Law Deanship
Via Blog Emperor Caron, I learn of this article which claims there are three finalists for the Duke Law Deanship: Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke), Judge David Levi (N.D. Cal.), and Kyle Logue (Michigan). (Judge Levi is the son of former A.G., Chicago Dean and President Edward Levi.)
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Arendt Reconsidered (Leiter)
This is an interesting and what seems to me appropriately critical assessment of Hannah Arendt and the currently booming academic Arendt industry by political theorist Corey Robin from Brooklyn College and the City University of New York; an excerpt: Perhaps it was inevitable, then, that the centenary of Arendt’s birth should have devolved into a…
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Wilson from Maryland to Washington & Lee
Robin Wilson (family law, health law) at the University of Maryland has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Washington & Lee University, where she is a visiting professor this year.
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Happy baby Jesus’s birthday (Wilson)
In the last years, and in the nature of the case, we’ve usually been the bearers of bad news; but alongside the many problems, the world is full of cool, interesting and/or (benignly) weird stuff. Hence we invite you to occasionally visit off the record to share a bit of what we come across. Happy…
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Erstling from the UN’s WIPO to William Mitchell
Jay Erstling, an expert on intellectual property who is currently Director of the Patent Cooperation Treaty, part of the World Intellectual Property Organization (a UN agency) has accepted a senior appointment with tenure as Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law, where he will also start an intellectual property law clinic.
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Friday Poem: “Snow”
Snow Snow falling. Fallen snow. Night windless, roadways white. White the branches and the earth. The special silence of a snowy night Stopping what we ordinarily do. We feel no need, the whiteness is enough. Were we lonely? We are no more. Here’s a peace that’s free of cloying, This calming plainness over all. What…
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How Late Will Departments Schedule APA Interviews? (Leiter)
One issue being discussed at the philosophy job market wiki is how late in the day will schools still be scheduling interviews. (May I urge philosophers from interviewing departments to note the status of their department’s interview decisions on that site as well?) It is now Friday evening, and my guess would be almost all…
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“The new way forward” (Edmundson)
The acknowledged US troop fatalities in Iraq ratchet toward the mediagenic number of 3000, and the White House seems determined to time the announcement of its "new way forward" so as to divert public attention from that sad milestone. But what will that "way" be? Sidney Blumenthal writes for the Guardian(Dec. 21): Bush’s touted but…
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…