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If you were the head recruiter for a professional basketball team, would you require height and weight measurements for prospective…
I wonder if people are familiar with Fred Schauer’s essay on Kelsen and Fuller. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607099
If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…
To a large degree, Kuhn’s Structure is an attempt to deliver on the descriptive task of epistemology as Reichenbach conceived…
I concur to a certain extent. I also scored very low on the writing section. Back then, GRE was required…
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
Robert Rasmussen, a leading bankruptcy law scholar at Vanderbilt, will be the new Dean of the law school at the University of Southern California. His wife, Rebecca Brown, a constitutional law scholar at Vanderbilt, will also join the USC faculty. USC’s Dean Search failed last year, but it seems like the school has now realized a happy outcome.
Vanderbilts Rasmussen to be New USC Law Dean
We haven’t discussed this in our department (lower ranked PGR but tend to get highly competitive/very large applicant pool) but…