W.H. "Joe" Knight, Dean of the law school at the University of Washington at Seattle since 2001, will step down as Dean at the end of this academic year. There is a news item here. My impression, from afar, is that the Law School did much better hiring, especially at the junior level, during his tenure, especially in interdisciplinary areas.
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I wonder if people are familiar with Fred Schauer’s essay on Kelsen and Fuller. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607099
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Thanks, I’ll check it out!
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