April 2007
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Cain and Love from Iowa to Santa Clara
Patricia Cain (sexuality & the law, tax) and Jean Love (remedies, civil rights, constitutional law), both chaired professors of law at the University of Iowa, have accepted senior offers from the law school at Santa Clara University.
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Hitchcock Declines Offer from Berkeley, to Remain at Cal Tech
Christopher Hitchcock (philosophy of science) at California Institute of Technology has declined the senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Jeffrey C. King to Rutgers
Jeffrey C. King, one of the most distinguished philosophers of language of his generation, currently at the University of Southern California, has accepted a Professorship at Rutgers University. King will join the Rutgers faculty in fall 2007, along with Alan Code and Martin Lin.
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Rookie Hiring in Legal History
Mary Dudziak (USC) has collected interesting data here, and is soliciting more. Especially interesting, as she notes, is how little role Yale plays in these placements.
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Cross from Oxford to Notre Dame
Richard Cross (medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion), Professor of Theology at Oxford University, has accepted appointment as John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, filling the Chair previously held by the late Philip Quinn.
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Aiken from Wash U/St. Louis to Georgetown
Jane Harris Aiken (clinical legal education, evidence, domestic violence, domestic law, child abuse), who is Director of the Civil Justice Clinic at Washington University, St. Louis, has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Georgetown University.
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Iraqi Doctor Who Disputes US Version of Death Tolls Denied Visa for Conference at U of Washington (Leiter)
Story here; an excerpt: An Iraqi doctor who made international headlines after stating that civilian deaths in the Iraq war far exceeded officially reported numbers is not being allowed to travel to North America to meet other academics. Riyadh Lafta and his colleagues have been trying for months to get a U.S. travel visa so…
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Friday Poem: “How Do You Like Austin?”
How Do You Like Austin? Where am I? In a room somewhere on the planet. Is anything outside? Don’t know. Doesn’t matter. Have always lived inside. The rest being interlude. How do you like your new home? It’s still new, may always be. I visit myself from time to time Being careful not to startle…
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Congratulations to UT’s Emerging Scholars…
…who have emerged, as Professor Solum now reports: David Gamage has accepted a tenure-track job at the University of California at Berkeley, and Alvaro Santos has accepted a tenure-track job at Georgetown University. Both had multiple offers. The first graduate (last year) of our "emerging scholars program" Sam Buell is now on tenure-track at Washington…
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Two Senior Hires for Emory: Nourse from Wisconsin, Ruskola from American
Victoria Nourse (criminal law, legislation, constitutional law, feminist legal theory) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Teemu Ruskola (comparative law, law & humanities, Chinese law, feminist/queer theory) at American University have accepted senior offers from the law school at Emory University. Emory had already established itself as a major center for feminist legal theory…
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Autoadmit (aka the Ciolli/Cohen Discussion Board) “Strikes Again”
So wrote Dean Nell Newton of Hastings to me last night, noting that the "discussion" board notorious for its misogynistic, racist, anti-semitic, and homophobic abuse–as well as for the general unwillingness of its administrators Anthony Ciolli (a Penn law student) and Jarret Cohen (an insurance agent) to do anything about it, even when asked directly…
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“Styles of Philosophy”–from Michigan (Leiter)
This account from the Department of Philosophy at Michigan is one of the more sensible things I’ve seen written about this topic, which we’ve discussed here in the past. I’m going to repost it in its entirety: Philosophers disagree profoundly about what the best way to do philosophy is. Disagreements of this sort are as…
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Buffalo Law Dean Olsen to Step Down in December…
…after almost a decade of service. The Buffalo news release is here.
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Law School Ranking Site
I post to ask a favor. I’ve heard from many readers that when you search Brian Leiter you don’t in fact get my law school ranking site as one of the top results, even though you get my blogs, my homepages, and my philosophy ranking site. So, dear reader with a blog, please post a…
Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…