October 2007
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Help Sought: What Language is This?
My short essay on Richard Rorty’s Dewey Lecture at the University of Chicago Law School has just appeared, but not only in English! Unbeknownst to me, it was translated for publication in the journal Kritika & Kontext, vol. 12, no. 34 (2007), which has just arrived in the mail. (The translation seems to have been…
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Two Tenured Hires for Washington & Lee: Spencer from Richmond, Miller from Idaho
The Law School at Washington & Lee University has made two lateral hires with tenure: Benjamin Spencer (civil procedure, federal courts) from the University of Richmond, and Russell Miller (international and comparative law) from the University of Idaho.
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Hofstra’s Scholarly Impact
Hofstra Law School kindly sent me the results of its self-study using the methodology of the scholarly impact study I released in September. Hofstra had impressive results (though it would not have made the top 35), results that also confirmed the wisdom of limiting the ordinal ranking to the top 35 schools. Hofstra reported a…
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Mindpapers
David Chalmers (ANU) introduces a new on-line resource with some 18,000 papers in philosophy of mind (broadly construed). (Also check out the list of most-cited works by philosophers in philosophy of mind.) Looks like a great resource!
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Against “Law Porn”
Larry Ribstein (Illinois) comments. Frankly, I’d rather read about faculty hires.
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Trends in Higher Education in the UK
Thom Brooks (Newcastle) comments on recent proposals here and here.
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David Kennedy from Harvard to Brown
David Kennedy, a specialist in international law at Harvard Law School, will move to Brown University in January, to take up the position of Vice President for International Affairs. (The Chronicle of Higher Ed has the story here.)
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Why Call it Law “Porn”?
Bridget Crawford (Pace) has a rather sophisticated answer here. Pamela Karlan (Stanford), who seems to have coined the term (though I, alas, get the blame for popularizing it), offered this explanation of its meaning awhile back: When I started using the term "law porn" to refer to the glossy promotional materials from various law schools…
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“Why Evolutionary Biology is (so far) Irrelevant to Law”
A revised, penultimate version of this paper I wrote with the philosopher of biology Michael Weisberg is now on-line for those who might be interested. It will appear some time in 2008.
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“Why Evolutionary Biology is (so far) Irrelevant to Law”
A revised, penultimate version of this paper I wrote with the philosopher of biology Michael Weisberg is now on-line for those who might be interested. It will appear some time in 2008.
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Good Luck to All Those Affected by the Southern California Fires
The law schools at the University of San Diego, California Western, and Pepperdine University are all closed today. (Others may also be affected, but these are the ones I know about.) Professor Tom Smith, on the USD law faculty, is writing about the fires here; he and his family have had to evacuate their home. …
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English-Language Obituary for M. Frede Finally Appears in Major Newspaper
From The Telegraph. (Thanks to Ophelia Benson for the pointer.) I’ve added the link to my original notice as well. UPDATE: Several readers have pointed out that the London Times also ran a substantial obituary several weeks ago. I’ve opened comments for readers to post any others. None of the obituaries address what a Princeton…
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Deontic Logic and Jurisprudence
Who knew it was so controversial?
We haven’t discussed this in our department (lower ranked PGR but tend to get highly competitive/very large applicant pool) but…