January 2007
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Tulane’s Roberts to be New Dean at Indiana/Indianapolis
Gary Roberts, one of the nation’s leading authorities on sports law, will leave Tulane Law School to become Dean of the law school at Indiana University, Indianapolis. The Indiana press release is here.
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Friday Poem: “Epitaph”
Epitaph He insisted on placing an epitaph on his ashes Who could deny him this expectation While he still lived Afterwards is a different matter He disliked the cold the heat as well There were few places he could live No matter he said because wherever he was He was elsewhere all the same He…
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Jaywalking historian brought to heel (Edmundson)
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (History, Tufts) recounts his recent occasion to reflect upon our duty to obey the law.
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“How Far Will Law Schools Go to Win the Rankings Race?”
Why, as far as it takes, of course, at least as long as manipulation and deceit yield results.
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Former Indiana Dean Aman Named Dean at Suffolk
Alfred Aman, Jr., former Dean of the law school at Indiana University at Bloomington, where he is still on the faculty, has been named Dean of the law school at Suffolk University. That’s a big catch for Suffolk. Their press release is here.
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What are we trying to do when we make a philosophical argument? (Leiter)
John Martin Fischer (UC Riverside) discusses the issue here (with particular reference to a recent treatment of the topic by Peter van Inwagen [Notre Dame]).
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Philosophy of Social Science in the PGR (Leiter)
James Bohman (Saint Louis University), Paul Roth (UC Santa Cruz), Stephen Turner (South Florida) and Alison Wylie (Washington/Seattle) sent me the following thoughtful letter regarding the current specialty ratings for Philosophy of Social Science. I am posting it here with their permission and hope to solicit other opinions from experts. Here is their letter: We…
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Milne from Edinburgh to Stirling
Peter Milne (Logic, Probability Theory), previously Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, has accepted a Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, where he will start next month.
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“Which Tenured Boalt Faculty Still Publish Articles?”
…my esteemed colleague on his latest international honor, this time from France. So asks a Boalt student with too much time on his hands. With students like these, who needs enemies? (And what the heck are the "most cited" journals? The results are sufficiently odd that one wonders.)
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Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) on Bush’s War-Mongering (Leiter)
Thank goodness there is at least one actual libertarian in Congress who is willing to turn an appropriately skeptical eye to the nonsense that emanates from the White House: While the president’s announcement that an additional 20,000 troops would be sent to Iraq dominated the headlines last week, the real story was the president’s sharp…
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Law Deans Criticize Bush Official’s Attempt to Intimidate Pro Bono Attorneys for Guantanomo Detainees
Details here. UPDATE: David Hoffman (Temple) takes apart the official’s fake "apology."
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Deja Vu All Over Again: King on Vietnam
MOVING TO THE FRONT FROM JANUARY 16, 2006 Today is the official Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday in the United States. Here are remarks Dr. King made in 1967 regarding the criminal and immoral war in Vietnam: The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and…
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More Scrutiny of the U.S. News Rankings: Employment Rates
Andrew Morriss (Illinois) and Bill Henderson (Indiana), two veteran dissecters of the U.S. News rankings, as well as sophisticed students of the profession, have posted their latest study here. As we have had occasion to note in the past, the employment figures reported in U.S. News are essentially "works of the imagination," and Professors Morriss…
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…