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February 2007

  • What To Say to a Student Who Sits in Class Viewing Pornography On His Laptop?

    Ann Bartow (South Carolina) has the solution!

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  • Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) on Bush’s War-Mongering and the Fake War on Terror (Leiter)

    Another strong statement by the one genuine libertarian in the House of Representatives: Osama bin Laden has expressed sadistic pleasure with our invasion of Iraq and was surprised that we served his interests above and beyond his dreams on how we responded after the 9/11 attacks. His pleasure comes from our policy of folly getting…

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  • Florida State: Lateral Hires and Offers

    The law school at Florida State University has made two lateral, tenured appointments:  Wayne Logan (criminal law and procedure) from William Mitchell College of Law, and Manuel Utset (corporate law, behavioral law and economics) from the University of Utah.  In addition, Florida State has also made two senior offers:  to Ronald Krotoszynski (constitutional law) at…

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  • Paul Craig Roberts on Bush, Again (Leiter)

    As the new "Gulf of Tonkin" rush to war continues, it is some small consolation to read someone who doesn’t pull punches on the subject of these war criminals: What would be the consequences of a US or Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear energy sites? At the 2006 Perdana Global Peace Forum, Australian medical scientist…

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  • Seeking Andrew Cross!

    I want to get in touch with Andrew Cross, the Kierkegaard scholar, but no longer have current contact information for him.  Professor Cross, if you’re reading, please e-mail me!  And if anyone has contact info for Professor Cross, would you please ask him to get in touch with me?  Many thanks.

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  • Trujillo from Wisconsin to Valparaiso

    Bernard Trujillo, an expert in bankruptcy and commercial law at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at Valparaiso University in Indiana.

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  • Texas Law Review Adds an On-Line Component…

    …as the other leading law reviews have been doing.  It is called "See Also" and the current editor is David Mader (contact).  Here is the official announcement: The Texas Law Review is pleased to announce the launch of See Also, an online companion to our print journal. See Also is online at http://www.texaslrev.com/seealso . See…

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  • Why Harvard Should Have Picked HLS Dean Kagan as President

    Thus spake Professor Dorf.

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  • “Nietzsche and Morality”…

    …will be published February 15 in Europe, and available a bit thereafter in the U.S.  The volume should be of interest not only to Nietzsche scholars, but to moral philosophers who, understandably, probably find much literature on Nietzsche unsatisfying.  All the newly commissioned essays here are by either moral philosophers with an interest in Nietzsche,…

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  • The Rich Get Richer: NYU Votes Out More Offers

    In addition to the offer voted out to Ted Sider, the Department of Philosophy at New York University has also voted out offers to David Chalmers (philosophy of mind and language) at the Australian National University; Frederick Neuhouser (19th-century German philosophy) at Barnard College and Columbia University; Samuel Scheffler (moral and political philosophy) at the…

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  • Larsen from Washington & Lee to Germany

    Clifford Larsen (international transactions, comparative law), Professor of Law at Washington & Lee University, has accepted a senior offer from the Bucerius Law School in Germany, to be Dean of the Master of Law of Business Program and UBS Professor of Law.

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  • Horsten from Leuven to Bristol

    The logician Leon Horsten (who has a groovy homepage!) at the Catholic University of Leuven (in Belgium) has accepted an offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol.  Volker Halbach at Oxford, who called this move to my attention, remarks that with Horsten and other recent appointments, Bristol "has developed in a…

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  • How Many Law Professors Earn More than 330K?

    So asks Blog Emperor Caron. Answer:  Not many, but more than Paul thinks!  (Most of the salary data he references does not include summer compensation.) ADDENDUM:  More information from Professor Caron here.  In answer to his last question:  at least for some schools, yes. UPDATE 2/14:  Current Michigan salary data from Professor Caron.

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  • Block from George Washington to Wash U/St Louis

    Cheryl Block (tax) at George Washington University has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at Washington University, St. Louis, where she is a visiting professor this academic year.

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  • Fool me twice…. (Edmundson)

    Once again, the New York Times is shilling for the Bush administration’s cooked intelligence.  This time Iran, rather than Iraq, is the target.  Informed Comment, the Huffington Post, and Think Progress apply cynical acid.  [Update: Paul Krugman pours it on.]

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