March 2007
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Stack from Cardozo to Vanderbilt
Kevin Stack, a specialist in administrative law who is Associate Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University, has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at Vanderbilt University.
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On-Line Survey for Philosophers Regarding Causal Judgments
Christopher Hitchcock (Cal Tech) writes: Josh Knobe (UNC) and I are doing a study on causal judgment, and one of the things we want to test is whether the judgments of philosophers are different from those of naive subjects. Thus we are hoping to attract a number of philosophers to take our on-line study. I…
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Where Federal Appellate Clerks Went to Law School
UPDATE: IT TURNS OUT THERE WERE MULTIPLE ERRORS OF OMISSION IN THE DATA, EVEN THOUGH SOME OF IT WAS ACCURATE. Accordingly, I’ve deleted the ranking. Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for the prompt corrections!
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Kontorovich from George Mason to Northwestern
Eugene Kontorovich, Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University, has accepted appointment as an untenured Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University, where he visited last fall (he is currently a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School). Kontorovich’s work brings economic analysis to bear on issues of public and international law. …
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Scott from Cambridge to Virginia
Dominic Scott, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Cambridge University and a specialist in ancient philosophy, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, where he will start this fall.
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Stephen Stich Awarded Nicod Prize in Paris…
…for his many important contributions to philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Previous winners include Stich’s Rutgers colleagues Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn, as well as Donald Davidson, John Perry, Fred Dretske, Daniel Dennett, Ruth Millikan, Gilbert Harman, and John Searle, among others.
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Kirkpatrick from Oregon to GW
Laird Kirkpatrick, a leading evidence scholar who is former Dean of the law faculty at the University of Oregon, has accepted a senior offer from the law school at George Washington University, where he is a visiting professor this academic year.
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Virginia Law Weekly Reports on Ciolli/Cohen “Discussion” Board Controversy; Dean Jeffries Comments
Story here; an excerpt: Recently, several female UVA Law students have been targets of harassment by members of an online message board. This harassment, perpetrated anonymously by posters to AutoAdmit.com, carries potentially damaging repercussions for the women: at least one has already been contacted about it by her prospective employer, and others fear that it…
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Federal Judges Are Not Underpaid…
…though some cost-of-living differentials would make sense. Judge Posner, as usual, cuts to the chase, though his analysis may not make him beloved among his colleagues on the bench.
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U of Florida Dean Warns of Probable US News Ranking Drop
The Dean’s message is here. The reasons for expecting a drop appear to be related to issues discussed last year by Tom Bell (Chapman) here. My own opinion is that both the University of Florida and (especially) Florida State University are underranked by U.S. News relative to their actual academic and scholarly strengths, but that…
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Moss from Marquette to Colorado
Scott Moss, a prolific scholar in employment law, constitutional law, and law and economics, at Marquette University has accepted an offer from the law school at the University of Colorado, Boulder. More detail here.
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Bernstein from Emory/NY Law School to Brooklyn
Anita Bernstein, a leading scholar in torts and feminist legal theory, who currently holds a joint appointment at New York Law School and Emory University School of Law has accepted a senior offer from Brooklyn Law School.
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Sturgeon from Birkbeck to Oxford
Scott Sturgeon (epistemology, philosophy of mind), Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, has accepted the CUF Lectureship at Oxford University (with a fellowship at Wadham College). (For more on Oxford job titles, see here.)
I’m not sure whether an interactive, online logic textbook counts as an open-access philosophy book, but for those who might…