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David J. Gunkel «Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond» (MIT, 2023) Link:…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…
Porphyry of Tyre on Theology and Theurgy (Harvard University Press & Center for the Study of World Religions, 2026) Permanently…
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Saul Smilansky PARADOXICAL ETHICS (Oxford University Press, 2026). Available by Open Access. https://academic.oup.com/book/62721?login=false Paradoxical Ethics is a unique book, exploring…
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, Columbia.
First LaborProf Gely Off to Missouri
As Brian Leiter brought to everyone’s attention this morning, this blog’s founding father, Rafael Gely who is currently at Cincinnati Law School is heading to an endowed chair at the University of Missouri next year. Quite a coup for those
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii