March 2007
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25 “Underrated” Law Schools According to Vault
The list is here. It was based, it appears, on a survey of attorneys charged with recruitment. It isn’t quite clear what the base-line is for ratings, such that a school is "underrated." Among the other oddities, it is clear from the comments that Vault permitted those surveyed to rate the law school from which…
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A First? A Philosophy Blog as a Companion to a Philosophy Text
The blog is here, and it is intended as a companion for teachers and students using the well-known introductory text by John Perry, Michael Bratman, and John Martin Fischer.
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Movsesian from Hofstra to St. John’s
Mark Movsesian (contracts, international law) at Hofstra University will take up a Chair at the law school at St. John’s University (in Queens, New York) this fall.
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Magarian from Villanova to Wash U/St. Louis
Gregory Magarian, a prolific young constitutional law scholar at Villanova University, has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at Washington University in St. Louis, where he will start in fall 2008.
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“Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy”
My book of this title was published in Britain two days ago; happily, it is available in paperback right away. It should be "officially" out in the U.S. in the next month or two.
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No Ranking is Too Trivial to Spark Commentary from Folks with Time to Burn…
…especially if they work in Columbus, Ohio it seems! SSRN downloads are not, contra my colleague Bernie Black and Blog Emperor Caron, very good measures of scholarly impact, but they seem to attract interest, and so in the catholic spirit of my law school ranking site I posted a list of the 15 most downloaded…
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Harris from Toledo to Pitt
David Harris (criminal law and procedure) at the University of Toledo will join the law faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in January 2008. The Pitt news item on this senior appointment is here.
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If You’re Planning on Publishing in the Times Literary Supplement…
…don’t post on SSRN, since, as I learned, they view web publication as publication, and they won’t publish anything that has been already been "published" anywhere, including on the web. Happily, Professors Menkel-Meadow and Tushnet accepted my review essay for the Journal of Legal Education, where it will appear this summer.
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Ramsey from Notre Dame to Nevada
William Ramsey (philosophy of mind and cognitive science), currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Beny from Michigan to Minnesota
Laura Beny (law and economics, corporate law), currently Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at the University of Minnesota.
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Taylor Wins Templeton Prize
Charles Taylor–whose influential work has ranged across political philosophy, post-Kantian German and French philosophy, philosophy of mind, ethics, and philosophy of the social sciences–is this year’s winner of the somewhat peculiar Templeton Prize, which is awarded for "progress toward research or discoveries about spiritual realities," and in practice has seemed to recognize mainly scientists friendly…
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Ventromedial injury and the Trolley Problem (Edmundson)
Descartes suggested that mind and physical reality connect in the pineal gland. A new study suggests that mind and deontological moral reality connect in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
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The Future Direction of This Blog (Leiter)
When I started the blog back in August 2003, the main idea was to make it a supplement to the PGR, both for updates and more general discussion of the philosophy profession, of philosophy, and cognate topics. As longtime readers know, I gradually migrated into more political topics, which seems to have been warmly welcomed…
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Spier from Northwestern to Harvard
Kathryn Spier, professor of business and law at Northwestern University and an expert on law and economics, the economics of litigation, business strategy for lawyers, and business associations, has accepted a senior offer from Harvard Law School.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii