August 2007
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Friday Poem: “The End of Mythology”
The End of Mythology A sudden glow; the crowd struck dumb recoils. Another sun more proximate alights Upon the curled and breathless mass. Frail hands That cannot fend the fluoroscope are pressed Upon the eyes, heads bow as if in prayer. And then the blow that ravishes our myth Impales the earth and ricochets full…
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Ranking Law Reviews by “Author Prominence”
This, sad to say, has to be the most pointless ranking exercise since the Cooley silliness, one that truly succeeds in conveying no meaningful information. Is there anyone teaching in a law school in the United States who gives a damn whether a law review has published a President, a Senator, or a celebrity? Wow!…
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Nietzsche on YouTube!
More information here.
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Over in Legal Philosophy Land…
…an epistemological puzzle about legal positivism? UPDATE: For the benefit of new readers, I should note, again, the purpose of the new blog and its commenting policy.
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A Good Statement on the Finkelstein Tenure Case…
…by DePaul philosopher Bill Martin. He is absolutely correct that DePaul’s embarrassing conduct in this matter, culminating now with the inexplicable exclusion of Professor Finkelstein from the classroom, risks making the university a "laughing stock." DePaul will, and should, pay a heavy price in terms of academic standing and its ability to hire and retain…
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Hathaway from Michigan to Melbourne
James Hathaway, a leading authority on refugee law at the University of Michigan Law School, will take up the post of Dean of the law faculty at the University of Melbourne in January 2008. This is the first time I can recall a member of a leading American law faculty moving to a Deanship in…
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The New Strategy of the Creationist Conmen
Pharyngula has the scoop. Sigh.
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Leo Strauss, the non-philosopher, in the News Again
This time in the Chicago Reader. An interesting piece, though the reporter, Ms. Englander, who was a pleasant woman, seems to have misunderstood my main points, and also misquoted me in a rather significant way. I submitted the following comment: I am misquoted in this article, as I have alerted Ms. Englander. I most certainly…
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UVA Seeking New Dean
Although I’ve not seen a public announcement to this effect, it appears John Jeffries, Dean of the Law School at the University of Virginia since 2001, is planning on stepping down, since the school is now advertising for a new Dean to assume office next summer.
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DePaul University: Serial Violator of the Academic Freedom and Contractual Rights of Faculty
Already widely criticized by the AAUP and others for the politically motivated tenure denials of two faculty last Spring, DePaul University has now taken the extraordinary step of "terminating the terminal year" of one of those faculty members, Norman Finkelstein, by denying him the right to teach his scheduled (and apparently fully subscribed) classes. Students…
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Young from Texas to Duke
It is with sadness that I report that my colleague Ernest Young (constitutional law, federal courts) has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Duke University, where he will start in January. Duke students will be pleased to know that they are not only getting a distinguished scholar but also an outstanding classroom…
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Duke’s Chemerinsky Reported to be “Leading” Candidate for Deanship of New UC Irvine Law School
National Law Journal story here.
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Over in Legal Philosophy Land…
…an epistemological puzzle about legal positivism? UPDATE: For the benefit of new readers, I should note, again, the purpose of the new blog and its commenting policy.
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The Future of Naturalism?
Everything you wanted to know here. I’ll be talking about some themes from my recent book.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii