February 2007
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Twerski to Step Down as Hofstra Dean at End of Academic Year
MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEB 10–SEE UPDATE Aaron Twerski, a leading torts and products liability scholar, will resign as Dean of the law school at Hofstra University at the end of the academic year, citing health reasons. Story here. Twerski only became Dean at Hofstra in 2005, moving there from Brooklyn Law School. (Thanks to…
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The wholly privatized family (Wilson)
Unicef has just released a report assessing the well-being of children in the top 21 wealthiest countries (for which there is appropriate data; see below). The [report] looks at six dimensions of child well-being: material well-being, health and safety, educational well-being, family and peer relationships, behaviors and risks, and young people’s own perceptions of their…
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Ava Maria Law School Relocating from Michigan to Florida
Blog Emperor Caron has the details and links. This will no doubt be a relief to the University of Michigan Law School, whose graduates have sometimes passed the Michigan Bar exam at lower rates than graduates of Ava Maria! (Now if we could only get rid of Baylor here in Texas….)
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“Naturalism in Legal Philosophy”
A revised and updated version of this essay is now on-line here at the Stanford Encyclopedia for Philosophy, for those who might be interested. A much fuller treatment of these issues, including my replies to a variety of critics (including Michael Moore, Jules Coleman, John Finnis, Julie Dickson, and others), will be forthcoming (simultaneously in…
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“Naturalism in Legal Philosophy”: Revised Version Now On-Line at SEP…
…here, for those who might be interested.
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Four Finalists for USC Law Deanship
Here (search "Law Dean Candidate Forum"). The finalists are Edward McCaffery (USC, and current Interim Dean, who is a tax scholar); Robert Rasmussen (Vanderbilt, who works on the law and economics of bankruptcy and commercial law); Emerson Tiller (Northwestern, positive political theory); and Marcus Cole (Stanford, bankruptcy and commercial law).
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BBC Reports Plans for U.S. Attack on Iran (Leiter)
Story here; an excerpt: US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country’s military infrastructure, the BBC has learned. It is understood that any such attack – if ordered – would target Iranian air bases, naval bases, missile facilities and…
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Smolla Named Dean at Washington & Lee
Rodney Smolla, a leading First Amendment scholar and current Dean of the law school at the University of Richmond, has been appointed Dean of the law school at Washington & Lee University. The Washington & Lee press release is here.
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Corporate Law Scholar Smith from Wisconsin to BYU
Gordon Smith (corporate law), a law professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at Brigham Young University. Professor Smith blogs about it here.
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Warren Chisum, Barbarian (Leiter)
Austin is one of my favorite places in the world, but sometimes one wonders what it is doing in Texas, a state where reactionary ignoramus (and bigot) Warren Chisum is an elected representative. God help us.
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Toledo’s Closius to be New Dean at Baltimore
Phillip Closius, former Dean of the law school at the University of Toledo, has been appointed the new Dean of the law school at the University of Baltimore. Story here. (Note the emphasis in the story given to U.S. News rankings.)
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Friday Poem: “The Shill of Progress”
The Shill of Progress ("breu chausson de razon loigna") Watch how he sweats behind his mask Your burgher-man with clammy hands The suave bourgeois who holds you fast And whom you give complete devotion As though a shill were not a shill You spend your days pursuing him The tales of progress that…
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Berkeley Makes Bid for Hitchcock
The Department of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley has made a senior offer to the very talented young philosopher of science Christopher Hitchcock at California Institute of Technology, who is perhaps best-known for his work on causation. (An interesting side-note, confirming Rice’s good eye for philosophical talent: Hitchcock started his teaching career…
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Strange Youtubing (J. Stanley)
Colorado philosopher David Barnett keeps it weird.
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…