February 2008
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Two Senior Hires for Rutgers-Newark: Ball from Penn State, Green from LSU
The Law School at Rutgers University, Newark has made two senior hires this year: Carlos Ball, a leading scholar writing about gay rights and sexuality and the law, who is currently at Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University (and, before that, taught for many years at the University of Illinois); and Stuart Green,…
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University Support for Faculty Who Win External Fellowships
A philosopher writes: Since fellowship awards typically get announced this time of year, it might be interesting to consider the following question: What policies or practices does your institution have regarding support of external fellowships in the humanities such as the NEH or ACLS? Such fellowships typically support around half a senior person’s salary. What,…
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New Gender, Race and Philosophy Blog…
…here, with a large cast of contributors.
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An American Presidential Election Update
This is mostly for the benefit of foreign readers, though perhaps some others will find it of interest. Yesterday, was "Super Tuesday" in the U.S., with more than twenty Presidential primaries throughout the country. Senator John McCain from Arizona emerged the clear front-runner to win the Republican nomination. Senator McCain is not popular with "conservatives"…
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Law Schools at Possible Risk of Not Meeting ABA’s (Expected) New Bar Passage Accreditation Standard
MOVING TO THE FRONT from February 4: Based on feedback about the proposed new standards, Professor Caron has revised his presentation of the data and the schools that might be affected. Blog Emperor Caron has the details. UPDATE: Comments at Caron’s site by Mark Scarberry and Eric Mitnick make clear that the risk of losing…
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Ranking Cases by Authority
Tom Smith (San Diego) writes regarding the new search engine he has been developing; he explains: It is the link to the new legal search engine created by PreCYdent, a startup I and Antonio Tomarchio, a mathematical engineer from the Politecnico di Milano, founded. Most of our engineers are grad students or recent grads of…
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Signing Bonuses for Junior Faculty?
A colleague elsewhere writes: I’ve just heard from my Dean that at least one law school is offering signing bonuses ($25,000) to entry-level candidates. I’ve never heard of this before. Is it becoming common? And, whether it is or not, should it? It is a way to attract candidates without distorting the pay scale. Certainly…
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For-Profit Law School in Kentucky Sued by Students
Story here. (Thanks to Tom Thornburg for the pointer.)
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A Huge Cut in Postgraduate Funding for Philosophy in the UK?
Simon Blackburn excorciates a recent government proposal in Britain, whose implications are, indeed, ominous for philosophy: I have been reading the Arts and Humanities Research Council document called the Delivery Plan, 2008-2011…. [T]he document reminded me of the brag sheet I once caught a glimpse of when a rather porcine business man left his laptop…
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Friday Poem: “Unafraid’
Unafraid I’m not afraidI have my tasks to pass the timeI keep a monthly calendarHang up my clothes at nightAnd like a pilgrim to a shrineAppear every ten daysAt the washing machine Month after monthI welcome the cleaning womanAnd I freely admitI delight at the gleamingWashstand that she leaves Deep in the dead of winterI…
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Six (!) Finalists for Deanship at West Virginia University
The WVU news item is here. The finalists are: Marion G. Crain at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (who was previously a member of the WVU law faculty); Mary J. Davis at the University of Kentucky; H. Marshall Jarrett, a WVU Law alum who is counsel for professional responsibility in the U.S. Department…
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Including Letters of Recommendation from Students in a Dossier?
A philosopher writes: My colleagues and I are conducting a job search for a tenure-track position. Several of the dossiers submitted to us have included letters of recommendation written by the job candidate’s former students and speaking highly of the candidate’s teaching ability. This is a new phenomenon to us; we have conducted several searches…
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Balkin on Citations to Blogs in Law Reviews
In the course of noting an apparent increase in citations to blogs in articles published in law reviews, Jack Balkin (Yale) remarks that the increasing rate of citation, suggests that something very interesting is happening in legal scholarship. The legal academy is gradually becoming acclimated to blogs as vehicles of scholarship and scholarly quality. Legal…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii