February 2008
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Friday Poem: “Elevator Ride”
Elevator Ride My sluggard lift’s unhurried levitation or descent seems time ill-spent departing from returning to the firmament Still better though than bygone days toiling the leaden stairs and grateful for a moment’s breath aspiring to the final floor Thus on reflection I learn time used proportions to the time we’re in and history…
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Ideological “Balance” in Legal Academia
Every six months or so, law bloggers banter about the alleged "ideological" imbalance on American law faculties. The latest round seems to have been started by Ilya Somin, a law professor at the least ideologically diverse law schools in the U.S., George Mason University (a fact which has largely worked to its advantage, I think). …
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Visiting Professors from Abroad Finding it Harder to Get Into the U.S.
A distinguished academic from the U.K., who has visited a number of times at U.S. institutions, writes: I’m thinking…of giving up longer visits to the US. Not because I don’t enjoy working here. On the contrary. But for various other reasons, not least of which is the Kafkaesque bureaucracy associated with getting a visa and…
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The Bush Presidential Library and Institute at Southern Methodist University
The betrayal of principles of academic freedom and research makes this an embarrassment for Southern Methodist University.
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Burk from Minnesota to UC Irvine
Dan Burk, a prolific and influential scholar in the intellectual property area at the University of Minnesota, has accepted an offer to join the new Law School at the University of California at Irvine. With Burk, Chemerinsky, and Fisk as the first three tenure-stream academic faculty, Irvine currently has a per capita rate of scholarly…
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Breaking News: Diebold Mistakenly Releases Results of 2008 Presidential Election Early
This is very funny. UPDATE: It goes without saying, I should think, that bullshit is the most important issue for voters in 2008. (Thanks to Derek Pierson for the link to this one.)
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Gely from Cincinnati to Missouri
Howard Erichson (civil procedure, complex litigation, legal ethics) at Seton Hall University has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Fordham University, where he is currently visiting. Rafael Gely (labor and employment law) at the the University of Cincinnati has accepted an endowed chair in the Law School at the University of Missouri,…
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UVA’s Paul Mahoney Named Dean
The UVA press release is here.
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Reading Philosophy
A reader writes: I enjoy your blog at leiterreports. This sounds strange, but would you consider doing a blog on ‘reading philosophy’? Reading philosophy isn’t like reading done in other fields. The big issue that would be interesting, I think, to get feedback from others on is: how long does it typically take you to…
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In Memoriam: Jay Rosenberg (1942-2008)
Jay Rosenberg, a mainstay of the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for some forty years, passed away yesterday. He was, of course, well-known for his many contributions to philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. I will add a link to a memorial notice as soon as one is…
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Graham from Wake Forest to Georgia State
George Graham, a leading contributor to work at the intersection of philosophy and psychology, who currently holds an endowed chair in the Philosophy Department at Wake Forest University, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University, where he will work with Eddy Nahmias, a leading young experimental philosopher, and…
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Buffalo Makes Bid for Braun at Rochester
David Braun (philosophy of language, philosophy of mind) at the University of Rochester has been offered the new Romanell Chair in Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. (Patrick and Edna J. Romanell have funded a number of initiatives in philosophy at the national level, including the well-known Romanell Lecture of the…
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Nussbaum on Her Decision to Stay at Chicago and Turn Down Harvard
Since Harvard and Chicago are much in the news this week, at least in legal circles, my colleague Martha Nussbaum at the University of Chicago kindly invited me to share some remarks about her decision to decline the offer from Harvard Law School, as well as the offer from Brown University. Bits and pieces of…
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Help Filler Fill the List of Lateral Moves for 2008!
Here. Many of these appeared here, but not all. (By the way, my "policy" on posting lateral moves is pretty simple: I only do those that involve a more with tenure, and I only post it if it is confirmed by the candidate himself or herself, or by the hiring institution. If I don’t post…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii