February 2008
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Johnson to Split Between Washington & Lee and St. Thomas (Minneapolis-St. Paul)
Lyman Johnson, a corporate law scholar and the Robert O. Bentley Professor of Law at Washington & Lee University, will join the faculty at the University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) as the Laurence and Jean LeJeune Distinguished Chair in Law. In coming academic years, Johnson will spend one semester at St. Thomas…
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Solum’s 2008 Entry Level Hiring Report…
…is underway! Please follow his instructions for submitting information carefully, to reduce the burden on Larry!
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Two Finalists for Arizona State University Deanship: Berman and Johnson
Here. They are Paul Schiff Berman from the University of Connecticut and Kevin Johnson from the University of California at Davis.
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Tax Professor Turned Congressional Candidate
Michael Livingston (Rutgers-Camden) has thrown his hat in the ring.
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What is philosophy?
The Department at Victoria University at Wellington compiles a quite interesting set of reflections by contemporary and 20th-century figures in answer to this question. My favorite is the one from John Campbell, now at Berkeley: Philosophy is thinking in slow motion. It breaks down, describes and assesses moves we ordinarily make at great speed –…
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Bertram on Castro
Political philosopher Chris Bertram (Bristol) offers some sensible observations about Cuba on the occasion of Castro’s retirement, observations that wouldn’t be remotely controversial in most of the world. But since Professor Bertram’s blog also interacts, in some measure, with the right-wing American blogosphere, the reactions from the undereducated and suitably indoctrinated has been predictable.
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Yale Law School Makes Bid for Legal Philosopher Shapiro at Michigan
More details here.
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Sunstein, Harvard, Chicago
It is with very mixed feelings that I must report that my great colleague Cass Sunstein at the University of Chicago has accepted the senior offer from Harvard Law School. (We can’t win ’em all!) But the good news (for us Chicago [or Chicago-to-be] folks) is that, as Cass told me, he will be keeping…
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Ranking Blogs by Law Professors by Traffic
Who cares, you say? Blog Emperor Caron, of course! Curious that four of the top five have almost nothing to do with law; four of the top five are right-wing blogs; and three of the top five have almost no intellectual content. Welcome to the blogosphere!
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Yale Makes Offer to Michigan’s Shapiro
Yale Law School has voted out an offer to my old friend Scott Shapiro (legal philosophy, philosophy of action), who is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Students thinking about JD/PhD programs should keep an eye on what happens here: Shapiro’s departure will be a big blow for Michigan…
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Four Finalists for Deanship at University of Houston
Here. They are: Neil Cogan, the current Dean at Whittier; Raymond Nimmer, currently Interim Dean at Houston; Linda Greene, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison; and Craig Nard, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University.
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Advice on Submitting to Law Reviews
Elizabeth Nowicki (Tulane) has initiated a discussion of questions that a lot of folks probably have.
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Experimental Philosophy on Bloggingheads TV!
Here, with Joshua Knobe (North Carolina). Accessible to non-philosophers.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii