July 2007
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Ganeri from Liverpool to Sussex
Jonardon Ganeri, one of the leading figures internationally working on classical Indian philosophy, has moved from a Chair at the University of Liverpool to one at the University of Sussex. Ganeri also works in epistemology, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mind.
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Burrows, Caulfield Elected to Royal Society of Canada
Law professors John Burrows, an expert on Aboriginal legal issues at the University of Victoria, and Timothy Caulfield, a specialist in health law at the University of Alberta, are the two law faculty among the newly elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. Also elected was criminologist Serge Brochu at the University of Montreal. …
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Smith from Sussex to Warwick
This is a bit belated, but still worth noting: A.D. (David) Smith (phenomenology, philosophy of mind) has moved from a Professorial post at the University of Sussex to one at the University of Warwick. He joins Stephen Houlgate, Peter Poellner and others in solidifying Warwick’s position as one of the top places (maybe the top…
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More on Suspicious Discrepancies in Employment Stats Reported to US News vs. the ABA
From famed U.S. News sleuth Tom Bell (Chapman).
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Friday Poem: “Comforted Not Free (Valery)”
Comforted Not Free (Valery) Vague amnesty of fact or fateThe knowledge of some deep mistakeWhen blood danced at soul’s accessionThough moon-eyed whining murky woeStill wheedles for propitiationI kneel to memory’s truncheonRehearse my clammy exculpation Thoughts recover me of oneWhose passion craved to lie with senseTo marry act and consciousnessHis history a slow agilitySo luculent…
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Percival from Glasgow to Nottingham
Philip Percival (metaphysics, philosophical logic, epistemology), Reader in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, has accepted a position as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, adding to Nottingham’s already significant strengths in metaphysics and cognate fields. (David Armstrong, the famed Australian philosopher, will also join Nottingham for six months in 2007-08 as Professor…
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All Hail the Emperor!
Blog Emperor Paul Caron is 50 years old today. Happy Birthday Paul! Like many rulers of vast empires, he has chosen to celebrate his birthday with an act of extraordinary magnanimity: he will forego his 50% of the revenue on the blog empire in 2008, turning it over to us, his minions! All hail Blog…
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Detlefsen Awarded Major Research Grant by France
Michael Detlefsen (logic, history and philosophy of mathematics) at the University of Notre Dame has been awarded a multi-year million-dollar research grant by the French National Research Agency. Details here.
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AAUP Intervenes in Finkelstein Case at DePaul
Professor Finkelstein has posted the text of a letter from the AAUP calling on the DePaul Administration to permit, consistent with established procedures, an appeal of the adverse tenure decision. Such an appeal has also been endorsed by the Faculty Council at DePaul.
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How to Move From Teaching Law Outside a Law School to a Law School Position?
Reader Rob Frieden writes: I am interested in starting a thread on lateral entry into a law school by non law professors. I am a law professor "without portfolio" in the College of Communications at Penn State University. I have a J.D from UVa (1980). My research agenda has brought me increasingly in league with…
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The Case of Professor Churchill
Now that the University of Colorado Board of Regents has voted to fire Professor Churchill–a sanction recommended by only one of the five members of the Committee that prepared the report on Professor Churchill’s research misconduct–some readers may be interested in my earlier remarks on the subject. A number of law professors have played important…
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The Report on Churchill’s “Research Misconduct” (Leiter)
MOVING TO THE FRONT FROM APRIL 27, 2007, now that the University of Colorado Board of Regents has voted to fire Professor Churchill, a sanction recommended by only one of the five members of the Committee that prepared the report on Professor Churchill’s research misconduct. The punishment is so plainly disproporionate to the actual offenses…
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“Judges Behaving Badly” in the Clerkship Hiring Process
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog has the details.
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Misbehavior by Law Students and Its Consequences for Bar Admission
Interesting essay by Steven Lubet (Northwestern); an excerpt: Two days after the massacre at Virginia Tech, an anonymous post on the despicable AutoAdmit Web site (previously best known for repulsive comments about women and minorities) raised the possibilty of a replay at a San Francisco law school. The post was headed "Just decided not to…
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More Employment Stats Differences
If the new U.S. News approach to employment statistics had been used for last Spring’s ranking, a number of schools outside the top ranks would have also had rather big differences between the scores they reported then and what they would have to report under the new method: Pepperdine (97.2 to 84.1) -13%…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…