March 2008
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Major Retention Coup for Notre Dame: The Bellias Turn Down Virginia
Anthony Bellia (Federal Courts) and Tricia Bellia (Constitutional Law, Cyberlaw) have declined tenured offers from the law school at the University of Virginia and will remain at the Notre Dame Law School. Notre Dame has long had a strong reputation among practitioners (Notre Dame alums are famously loyal, which also doesn’t hurt), but the school…
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Is the Capacity for Moral and Religious Beliefs Innate?
Psychologist Bloom vs. Philosopher Knobe.
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Hall of Shame: Schools Publicizing Their Meaningless US News Ranking
Blog Emperor Caron collects a list of the offenders. Amazing. Someone else will no doubt figure out how many of these Deans, or their predecessors, signed the letter urging students to ignore the U.S. News rankings. While I have some slight sympathy with lesser-known schools trying to publicize an unusually good result on the U.S.…
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Tenure-Track Hiring by Philosophy Departments, 2007-2008
MOVING TO FRONT (originally posted February 8) It’s that time of year again…I am opening comments on this thread for people to post news about junior, tenure-track hires in philosophy departments, i.e., hires made during this year of new assistant professors who will be starting in fall 2008 (or thereafter). (For schools outside the US,…
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Yudof from Chancellor at Texas to President at California
Mark Yudof (constitutional law, education law), currently Chancellor of the University of Texas System, and previously President of the University of Minnesota, Provost of the University of Texas at Austin, and Dean of the Law School at Texas, has accepted appointment as President of the University of California System. He will also hold an appointment…
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Klick from Florida State to Penn
Jonathan Klick (empirical law and economics) at Florida State University has accepted a tenured offer from the University of Pennsylvania.
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How Do UK PhDs Outside Oxbridge Fare on the US Market?
A prospective PhD student writes: I was wondering if you would mind posting on your blog the question of how a UK phd (not from Oxford or Cambridge) can expect to compete on the US job market compared to how they would compete with a phd from a US department? In my particular case I…
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Zick from St. John’s to William & Mary
Timothy Zick (constitutional law) at St. John’s University has accepted a senior offer from the College of William & Mary.
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The US News ‘echo chamber’
Still timely, sad to say. (Note that the link is to an item from three years ago.)
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Friday Poem: “Girl at the Electronic Catalogue”
Girl at the Electronic Catalogue The bright screen as I passAlive alas with "Suicide" The catalogue in dialogueWith a young girl’s queriesAnd jocular I close the gapTo where she’s fixedWith my crude question "I hope it’s not a choice" "It was my brother’sI want to understand" Such weighty mysteryThe urge to leaveWith or without goodbyeThe…
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Mootz from Penn State to Nevada
Francis Jay Mootz (commercial law, critical legal theory) at Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University has accepted a senior offer from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Reputation Scores in 2008 US News Surveys (from fall 2007)
Based on the copies of the US News rankings that have been circulating in Cyberspace for a couple of days (thanks to the many readers who sent me copies), here are the results of the reputational surveys conducted by U.S. News early last fall. Every year there tend to be some inexplicable fluctuations in scores…
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Law schools lying to US News?
Pretty shocking, if true! Of course, it may just be, as Professor Lindgren says, an ‘unwitting’ error.
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii