May 2007
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Polsky from Minnesota to Florida State
Gregg Polsky, a tax scholar at the University of Minnesota School of Law, has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Florida State University. UPDATE: Blog Emperor (and tax scholar) Caron comments on the Polsky hire.
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Neuhouser Declines NYU Offer
Frederick Neuhouser (German Idealism, political philosophy) at Barnard College and Columbia University has declined the senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at New York University. If Neuhouser had joined Longuenesse and Richardson, NYU really would have been unbeatable for 19th-century German philosophy.
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Me
So I’m getting asked this enough, that I should probably post something, especially given some of the weird rumors circulating in Cyberspace that have been sent my way the last couple of months. I do have an offer from the University of Chicago Law School, where I had a very rewarding visiting stint last fall. …
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Bowman from Northwestern to Cornell
Cynthia Grant Bowman, a leading scholar in feminist legal theory, family law, and international human rights at Northwestern University School of Law, has accepted the Chair in Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School (previously held by Martha Fineman, now at Emory).
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Vanderbilt’s Rasmussen to be New USC Law Dean
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…
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Wall Street Journal Blog Reports that Autoadmit’s Ciolli Has Had His Job Offer Rescinded
The story is here; an excerpt: [L]aw firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge rescinded its job offer to Anthony Ciolli, the 3L at Penn Law who resigned as “Chief Education Director” of AutoAdmit last month. He resigned in the wake of a WaPo exposé on how the site in part served as a platform for…
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So what do you do for a living? “I’m a philosopher”
Jonathan Wolff (UCL) has an amusing column on the topic here, which starts with the following great anecdote: Several philosophers claim to have had the following conversation on long-haul flights: "And what line of work are you in?" "Me? I’m a philosopher." "Oh, really? And what are some of your sayings?" UPDATE: A reader writes…
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Amar from Hastings back to UC Davis
Vikram Amar (constitutional law), who moved to the University of California, Hastings College of Law from UC Davis almost ten years ago has now accepted a senior offer to return to Davis effective July 1. That’s a big coup for Davis!
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Evaluating the Finkelstein/Dershowitz Dispute
Frank Menetrez, a UCLA-trained lawyer and PhD philosopher, has published a very illuminating analysis of the main charges and counter-charges in this tenure battle about which we have written previously. Not entirely surprisingly, it turns out that the rhetorical volume of Professor Dershowitz’s charges is inversely proportional to their factual and analytical credibility.
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Crisis at Ave Maria Law School
Dean Mark Sargent (Villanova) has posted the full text of a statement by faculty at Ave Maria here; if even a portion of the allegations against Dean Dobranski are true, then his career in academic administration is probably over. Here is an excerpt from the statement: {L]ast spring, a substantial majority of the faculty issued…
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UW’s Stilt Named 2007Carnegie Scholar for Work on Islamic Law
Kristen Stilt, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Washington at Seattle (and a 1993 UT Law grad, as it happens), has been named a 2007 Carnegie Scholar for her work on Islamic law and history by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. (Stilt also has a tenure-track offer from the law school at…
We haven’t discussed this in our department (lower ranked PGR but tend to get highly competitive/very large applicant pool) but…