December 2006
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Job Ad: Lectureship in “Conscious Sedation” (Leiter)
You can’t make this stuff up.
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Academic Job Ad
Once again, this isn’t from law, but it is still quite funny. One of our PhD students sent along this letter from the Irish Times: Madam, – This week’s Health Supplement publishes an employment advertisement from Trinity College for a "Lecturer in Conscious Sedation". It is not clear whether this job description refers to the…
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Texas “Emerging Scholars Program” Still Taking Applications!!!
I don’t usually post these kinds of items, but will make an exception for my beloved home institution; one of my colleagues involved in the selection of candidates passes the following along: The Emerging Scholars Program at the University of Texas School of Law is still taking application for fellowships beginning in Fall 2007. The…
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Cunningham from Boston College to GW
Lawrence Cunningham (corporate law) at Boston College has accepted a senior offer from the law school at George Washington University, where he will start next August.
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Strevens on Bayesian Confirmation Theory (J. Stanley)
Often, I am asked by graduate students for an authoritative accessible introduction to Bayesian Confirmation Theory oriented to philosophers. I just noticed that Michael Strevens has placed some lengthy almost book-length course notes on the website for his seminar on Confirmation Theory that fulfill just this need (look under ‘Teaching’, then under ‘Confirmation Theory’, then…
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Changes in Law School Hiring Practices Over the Past Generation
A faculty member who has taught at several of the top law schools writes about his perceptions of how the job market for faculty has changed over the last generation: In the last 20 years, there have been two huge shifts in hiring. 20 years ago, lateral hiring was unusual: almost everyone built their faculties…
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Site for Sharing Information About Philosophy Job Market (Leiter)
Here. I can not vouch for the reliability of the information on this site, though it appears it may be run by the Chronicle of Higher Education. But like any "wiki" site, information is posted anonymously, so it is hard to know whether it is reliable or not. On the off chance that it does…
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Brown Shirts in Waiting, Part 37 (Leiter)
Remarkable story here (via www.atopian.org): When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band, the phone lines jammed instantly. The first caller to the station in Washington said that Klein must be "off his rocker." The second congratulated him…
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Iraq refugee crisis III (Edmundson)
The Iraq refugee crisis deepens. Elaine McKewon at BayouBuzz fills in some details: The UN estimates that 3,000 people are leaving Iraq every day, including a substantial number of the country’s professional and skilled classes. Most insist they do not want to return to Iraq. Among these refugees are 120,000 Christians, most of whom say…
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Iraq refugee crisis II (Edmundson)
The Bush administration persists in snubbing Syria for failing to control the 1,000,000 or so Iraqi refugees it has absorbed since the 2003 US-led invasion. Syria gets negative points for opening its borders to those who can flee the humanitarian disaster the neoCons have made and shrilly insist on aggravating (realism and popular demand to…
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The “A” Word (Leiter)
"Authoritarianism," that is, and Jack Balkin (Yale Law School) explains why it is warranted with respect to the conduct of the Bush Administration.
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Academic Trade Secrets, Part I: Grading Exams
Daniel Solove (George Washington) reveals the truth about how it is actually done. UPDATE: Via Dean Charles Nelson at Faulkner University’s Jones School of Law comes a link from his colleague Professor Andy Olree regarding the equally scientific grading practices when he taught political science at Harding University. What do readers think: stairs or shotguns? …
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Aoki from Oregon to UC Davis
Keith Aoki (intellectual property, critical theory), who is currently the Philip Knight Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, has accepted a senior offer from the University of California at Davis, where he is visiting currently.
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How Not to Recruit Students to Your PhD Program (Leiter)
The Economics Department at Harvard actually prepared this video as a recruiting device for prospective PhD students. It is fair to say that this was not a successful effort. Students in the Department, in turn, prepared two parodies of the original: here and here. I confess I almost died laughing on the second one especially.…
Sorry to keep beating a dead horse, but something just occurred to me that I haven’t seen anyone discuss. Why…