April 2008
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Was There a “Formalist” Age?
Tamanaha says "no," I’m rather more skeptical of his evidence.
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Visiting Professors for 2008-09: An Updated List…
…courtesy of Professor Filler.
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Best Beach, Best Food, Best Town on the Costa Brava?
I know someone out there knows! Is it Llafranc? Llanca? Where? Post your thoughts in the comments, so that other readers may benefit. Thanks.
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A Nietzsche Journal with Scholarly and Philosophical Standards?
It may be possible.
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Four Law Professors Win Guggenheim Fellowships
The winners are Randy Barnett (Georgetown), Richard Pildes (NYU), Richard Primus (Michigan), and Katherine V.W. Stone (UCLA); Professors Barnett and Primus are winners of the new "Constitutional Studies" Fellowship announced last year. The full list of winners for 2008 is here
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We Miss Some Faculty Hires
Fortunately, others in the blogosphere pay attention.
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Tom Monaghan Deposition in Lawsuit Against Ave Maria Law
Some commentary here on what sounds like a simply bizarre deposition. More background on the lawsuit here. UPDATE: The deposition saga continues. It is really hard to see how Ave Maria Law School can survive these revelations about its, shall we say, ‘unusual operations.’
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Nussbaum on Moyers
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago) discusses her new book on religious liberty and equality with Bill Moyers here.
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Campus Visits by Prospective Students: What are the Norms? What is the Ideal? What are People’s Impressions?
A philosophy graduate student at a mid-ranked PhD program writes: I’ve been reading with interest the comments on your post aboutgraduate admissions yield. It strikes me that it might also beinteresting to discuss the way that admitted prospective students aretreated on their campus visits. A couple of issues are important: 1) Different schools do their…
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Nowak, Emeritus at Illinois, Takes Up New Chair in Constitutional Law at Loyola/Chicago
John Nowak, co-author (with Ronald Rotunda) of a leading treatise in constitutional law, who recently retired from the University of Illinois College of Law, has accepted a new Chair in Constitutional Law at Loyola University, Chicago.
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Arizona’s Paul Pursued by UNC As Well
The Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has voted out an offer to L.A. Paul (metaphysics) at the University of Arizona, who is also being recruited by Notre Dame.
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New Philosophy Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Announced
The 2008 electees for Philosophy are Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan), Nuel Belnap (Pittsburgh), and Calvin Normore (UCLA, moving to McGill). Two Foreign Honorary Members were also elected: David Armstrong (Emeritus, Sydney) and Simon Blackburn (Cambridge University, who is also now a part-time Research Professor at North Carolina). The full list is here. The AAAS has now…
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New Law Fellows of American Academy of Arts & Sciences Elected
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced the Fellows elected for 2008. They are: Mark Kelman (Stanford), William Landes (University of Chicago), Richard Pildes (NYU), Margaret Jane Radin (Michigan; also Emerita, Stanford), Reva Siegel (Yale), Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, William Stuntz (Harvard), and Elizabeth Warren (Harvard). Ernest Weinrib (Toronto) was elected as…
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Michigan Law Review’s “Books” Issue in Decline?
That’s the perception of Stephen Griffin (Tulane). Mine too, I have to admit.
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…