April 2007
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Minnesota Makes Bid for Notre Dame’s Bays–and Notre Dame Makes Offer to UCLA’s Carriero
Timothy Bays (logic, philosophy of mathematics), Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has received a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul. Meanwhile, Notre Dame has made a senior offer to John Carriero, a leading scholar of early modern philosophy at the University of…
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New Philosophy Fellows of American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announced
The AAAS press release and complete listing is here. The new Fellows are Geoffrey P. Hellman (Minnesota), Terence Parsons (UCLA), Robert Pippin (Chicago), Stephen Schiffer (NYU), Wilfried Sieg (Carnegie-Mellon), Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins), and Mark Wilson (Pittsburgh). Three Foreign Honorary Members in Philosophy were also elected: Jacques Brunschwig (Paris 1 [Sorbonne]), Ernst Tugendhat (Tubingen), and…
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New Law Fellows of American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announced…
…here. The new members are: Akhil Amar (Yale), Christopher F. Edley, Jr. (Dean at Boalt, formerly Harvard), Henry Hansmann (Yale), Herbert Hovenkamp (Iowa), Pamela Karlan (Stanford), Judge David Levi (U.S. District Court in Sacramento, soon to be Dean of Duke), former Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Richard Revesz (Dean at NYU). (I am told O’Connor’s…
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Overrated and Underrated Law Schools in US News
The US News top 100 are here, and here is the list of "tier 3" and "tier 4" schools. Which law schools do readers consider overrated and underrated relative to the more traditional academic criteria of merit that play only a minor role in the US News rankings? (A comparison with the academic reputation results…
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Student (Numerical) Quality Rankings Redux
Based on correspondence with various students, it seems not everyone has noticed that the recently posted ranking of law schools based on the numerical credentials of students (primarily, though not exclusively, LSAT scores) included two lists, one based on 75th percentile credentials, one on 25th percentile credentials. Some schools fare markedly better on one list…
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Boalt Dean Recommends Student Who Posted Threat Against Hastings on “Autoadmit” be Expelled
The Boalt student who thought it funny to post a Virginia-Tech-style copycat threat against the University of California, Hastings College of Law on the notorious Autoadmit cesspool/discussion board is now apparently facing expulsion, according to an e-mail sent to the community by Boalt Dean Edley, which reads in part: On Wednesday, April 25, 2007, the…
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Pfander from Illinois to Northwestern
James Pfander (federal courts, constitutional law, civil procedure) at the University of Illinois College of Law has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Northwestern University.
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Friday Poem: “Immortality”
Immortality No one among them had died for years Or thought they hadn’t Perhaps that explains The people they had killed Thinking: I cannot die We cannot die Only they can die It does not matter That we may deserve to die We…
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Tenure-Track Hiring by Philosophy Departments, 2006-2007
MOVING TO FRONT FOR THE LAST TIME THIS HIRING SEASON [originally posted February 8 2007] It’s that time of year again…I am opening comments on this thread for people to post news about junior, tenure-track hires in philosophy departments, i.e., hires made during this year of new assistant professors who will be starting in fall…
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“Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy”…
…has now been published in the U.S. It is available in paperback, so hopefully someone will read it!
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“Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy”
…has now been published in the U.S. It is available in paperback, so hopefully someone will read it!
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Hirings, Lateral Moves, Visits in Tax Law
Blog Emperor Caron has compiled all the news for 07-08 here.
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Snyder from Tulane to American
David Snyder (contracts, commercial law), Professor of Law at Tulane University, has accepted a senior offer from the Washington College of Law at American University.
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“Departmental Visits” for Prospective PhD Students
A student recently accepted to graduate programs in philosophy wrote to me inquiring about the "role of post-offer ‘departmental visits’ in the decision making process." S/he continues: I, for one, was totally unaware that these visits had become a central part of the procedure; I had no idea that departments were spending money flying prospective…
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Yu from Michigan State to Drake
Peter Yu (intellectual property, communications law, comparative law), Associate Professor of Law at Michigan State University, has accepted an endowed chair on the law faculty at Drake University.
I never met Alan, sadly, but his work leading the charge in making philosophy of sex “a thing” in contemporary…