June 2007
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Why Don’t More Elite Law Schools Teach Consumer Law?
So asks the Consumer Law & Policy Blog; comments are open there for those who have ideas.
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Hardcastle from Virginia Tech to Cincinnati
Valerie Hardcastle (philosophy of mind and cognitive science), currently Professor of Philosophy and Science & Technology Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, has accepted appointment as Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Cincinnati, where she will also be Professor of Philosophy. That is likely to be a…
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Friday Poem: “Theater Death”
Theater Death I am in the Theater DeathAlone but not feeling aloneIf dead not feeling deadI go about my business playing out my roleIt is not a time for taking chancesEverything is very seriousScenes started cannot be stoppedActions must be taken to conclusionI know that if I begin to speakMy sentence will proceed inexorably But…
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Slate Looks Back at Liberal Lawyers Who Supported Nomination of C.J. Roberts
Interesting piece here. It turns out that an obscure philosopher was closer to the mark on Roberts! Meanwhile, Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s) has provocative remarks on the Supreme Court Term just concluded, as does Geoffrey Stone (Chicago).
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Howrey Law Firm to Pay Associates Based on “Merit” Rather than Seniority
Story here. This could have huge, and not necessarily welcome, ramifications if it becomes widely adopted. My guess is that, in the short-term, Howrey is going to have real trouble recruiting new associates, and that will discourage other firms from following suit. On the other hand, if the Howrey partners find their profits-per-partner going up…
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Philosophy = skateboarding – skateboard? (Edmundson)
One of the compliments philosophy is paid is its being invoked to spice up other things that–without a dash of philosophy–might seem rather insipid. Consider "parkours" (from the Fr., parcours), and "freerunning," practically indistinguishable urban sports invented and perfected in France. Both are kinds of scrambling around, caroming gracefully off of obstacles, hurdling guardrails, and…
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Some Interesting Commentary on Today’s School Segregation Case
Lior Strahilevitz (Chicago) Jack Balkin (Yale) Mark Graber (Maryland) Eric Muller (North Carolina)
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Law Schools Unlikely to Follow Lead of Liberal Arts College and Boycott US News
So reports The National Law Journal. Nothing is to be gained from such a strategy, in my view, since U.S. News has shown its willingness in the past to simply "fill in the blanks" with their best guess for data schools won’t provide (this is what the magazine has done for years with Reed College,…
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European Science Foundation’s Ranking of Philosophy Journals
Philosopher Gualtiero Piccinini (Missouri/St. Louis) has the details, links and a short explanation of the rating scale, as well as some comments on the significance of this list for European philosophers. The philosophy list is here. And a longer explanation of the rating scale is here. The rankings consist of three gradations: A being the…
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Brian Leiter Links Page
Your (nearly) complete Brian Leiter links page, which some readers may want to switch out for their current links to this or my other pages. (I’ve got another Brian Leiter links page as well, which I may fill out further, though the Naymz site was a bit easier to use I thought.)
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The Finkelstein Tenure Case and the Meaning of “Ad Hominem”
On his web site, Professor Finkelstein has posted a very fine letter by a philosopher in the U.K. sent to the President of DePaul University, Dennis Holtschneider (you may e-mail President Holtschneider here regarding the tenure case). The letter writer notes a point we have touched on in the past, namely, the misuse of the…
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Wall Street Journal Article on Law School Rankings Besides US News
Here. Two interesting excerpts. One: Before deciding which law school to attend this fall, Eric Singer flipped through the latest U.S. News & World Report law-school rankings. He eventually chose the University of Chicago over New York University, even though NYU is ranked higher overall. Instead of relying on U.S. News, Mr. Singer scanned independent…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…