February 2007
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Scheffler from Berkeley to NYU
Samuel Scheffler (moral and political philosophy) at the University of California at Berkeley has accepted the senior offer from New York University, where he will join the faculty in fall 2008. This is the second major senior loss for Berkeley in the last year: Alan Code (ancient philosohpy) accepted an offer at Rutgers University, New…
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Which Journals Publish “Discussion Notes”?
David Velleman (NYU) forwards to me a query he received from an author who had submitted a "discussion"-style piece to Philosophers’ Imprint, which (alas) does not publish discussion pieces. The author wrote to Professor Velleman: [I]t is actually quite difficult to find an appropriate place to send it to, as most journals these days are…
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Proposed UC Irvine Law School Fails to Get California Education Agency Approval
A new report from the California Postsecondary Education Commission recommends against creating a fifth University of California law school at the Irvine campus, a recommendation that may well be a decisive blow. There is only one UC law school in Southern California, at UCLA; the other three UC law schools are in Northern California (at…
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The Churchlands
The New Yorker profile of philosophers Patricia and Paul Churchland is now available on-line here. (Thanks to Adam Bendorf for the pointer.)
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Fellowships for Aspiring Law Teachers
Blog Emperor Caron has updated his invaluable listing.
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List of All Lateral Moves for 2007
MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEBRUARY 22, SINCE IT HAS ALREADY BEEN UPDATED WITH A NUMBER OF NEW HIRES. Dan Filler (Drexel) is compiling such a list here (based, in part, on news posted here, but also other sources).
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For Legal Philosophers: Review of Two Books: One by, One on Dworkin (Leiter)
The penultimate draft of the review (which will appear in the TLS) is here. The books discussed are Dworkin’s recent collection Justice in Robes (Harvard University Press, 2006) and Scott Hershovitz (ed.), Exploring Law’s Empire (Oxford University Press, 2006). I was operating, needless to say, under a word limit!
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Bush Administration’s Torture of U.S. Citiziens and Others Finally on Trial (Leiter)
Useful story here from The Guardian; an excerpt: Something remarkable is going on in a Miami courtroom. The cruel methods US interrogators have used since September 11 to "break" prisoners are finally being put on trial. This was not supposed to happen. The Bush administration’s plan was to put José Padilla on trial for allegedly…
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Review of Two Books: One on, One by Dworkin
This may interest students of jurisprudence: the penultimate draft of the review (which will appear in the Times Literary Supplement) is here. The books discussed are Dworkin’s recent collection Justice in Robes (Harvard University Press, 2006) and Scott Hershovitz (ed.), Exploring Law’s Empire (Oxford University Press, 2006). I was operating, needless to say, under a…
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New Corporate Law/Securities Reg Blog…
…here, featuring J. Robert Brown (Denver) and, interestingly (perhaps uniquely), students of his at the law school.
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Cuomo from Cincinnati to Georgia
This is a belated bit of news: Chris Cuomo (environmental philosophy, feminist philosophy), formerly of the University of Cincinnati, accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, where she started this past fall.
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Paul Campos’s Problem with the First Amendment and Academic Freedom (Leiter)
Paul Campos is the University of Colorado law professor who, disgracefully, called for Ward Churchill to be fired because of his views (though he later shifted gears to focus on the latecomer charges about plagiarism [most of which were not substantiated] and shoddy footnoting–there is a useful discussion of that topic here). Whatever the constitutional…
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Friday Poem: “The Coming Storm”
The Coming Storm Sky trailing gloom lathered clouds roiling like the grume of spent soup boiled the croup of thunder groping upon the raspy …
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Bennett from Princeton to Cornell
Karen Bennett (metaphysics, philosophy of mind), currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at Cornell University.
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Jobs at Oxford: A Guide for the Perplexed (Leiter)
My friend Michael Rosen, who taught philosophy for many years at Oxford before taking up a post in the Government Department at Harvard, sent the following remarks that others might find useful: I looked at your blog yesterday and noticed you had a story about Oxford hiring new faculty. You reported that Oxford had offered…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii