July 2007
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US News to Change Measure of Job Placement
Via Blog Emperor Caron, I learn that U.S. News will change how it measures job placement, to reflect changes made by the ABA: On this year’s questionnaire (for the 2007-2008 year), when asking about the Feb. 15, 2007, job status of a law school’s 2006 graduates, the ABA combined the three categories of unemployment it…
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New SSHRC Grants to Philosophers in Canada
Richard Zach (Calgary) has the details.
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Garoupa from Portugal to Illinois Part-Time (*Corrected*)
Nuno Garoupa (comparative law and economics, institutional economics), Professor of Law and Economics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portgual., will join the law faculty at the University of Illinois this August on a half-time basis; the rest of the time he will be on the law faculty at the University of Manchester in the…
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Advice for Those Interested in Law Teaching
Mary Dudziak (USC) has helpfully collected links to a variety of blog and Internet postings on this subject.
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Friday Poem: “Perfect Dead”
Perfect Dead You are improving as you dieyou will be perfect deadRimbaud’s lifeby contrastflowered early onwilted and went wantingwhile live enoughto rue iteach man hisown inventioneach seasonhas her fugue Descendantseye us passingas we push onup the hilllook to usfor meaningand we to themfor meaningas buffaloedas theyon our wayto dyingon their wayto rue 12/27/94-1/18/95, 1/20/96 Copyright…
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Updated and Corrected Faculty Lists for 2007 Citation Study
The new (and I hope penultimate) list is here: Download law_faculty_lists_0708.rtf. Wake Forest has been added to the study, based on data the school supplied. Note that the definition of part-time faculty has been altered to deal with some difficulties that arose with the earlier categorization: part-time faculty now means non-tenure-stream academic faculty (e.g., judges,…
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A New Law School in the Works for Maine?
The Adjunct Law Prof Blog has details.
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In Memoriam: Timothy L.S. Sprigge (1932-2007)
Via a philosophy list-serve in the UK, I learn that Professor Sprigge, who held the Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh for many years, has died. There is more about his philosophical career and work here.
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Gee from Vanderbilt to Ohio State
Gordon Gee, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University where he is also a professor of law, will become President of Ohio State University, a post he held more than a decade ago. The Vanderbilt announcement is here.
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Henderson and Morriss Reply Regarding U.S. News
I invited Professors Henderson and Morriss to reply to my criticism of their defense of U.S. News; their comments follow: As Brian notes, many of the underlying inputs used by U.S. News, including the employment numbers (which are supplied by the schools to the ABA), are remarkably unreliable. This is an embarrassing problem that only…
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Eros on campus (Edmundson)
In the current The American Scholar, William Deresiewicz (English, Yale), revisits Plato’s Symposium, in light of recent depictions of humanities professors on the screen. (Thanks to Ruchira Paul for the pointer)
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Harvard Faculty Launch New Peer-Edited Journal
The Journal of Legal Analysis it will be called; the Harvard announcement is here. Given the editorial board, it seems vaguely like the Journal of Legal Studies, but the latter is so well-established it’s hard to see why authors would prefer the former to the latter. And in an era when faculty edit Legal Theory,…
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A Separate Blog on Issues in Legal Philosophy
I have not generally tried to "do philosophy" on the blog, though I have often linked to philosophical work by myself and others. But, as an experiment, I’ve created a new blog in which I’m going to work through some issues in legal philosophy. The posts will not be aimed at a generalist audience, but…
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Simpson’s “The Common Law and Legal Theory”
A couple of years ago, Leslie Green and I had a spirited exchange in the pages of the Times Literary Supplement with A.W.B. Simpson about his hatchet job on H.L.A. Hart, delivered under the guise of a review of Nicola Lacey’s fine biography. Like some other reviews of Hart’s biography–I am thinking especially of Thomas…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that