April 2008
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Longtime Temple Faculty Member JoAnne Epps Named Dean
The Temple press release is here.
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Two More Senior Hires for Emory: Brown from Washington & Lee, Woodhouse from Florida
Dorothy Brown (tax, Critical Race Theory) at Washington & Lee University and Barbara Bennett Woodhouse (family law, children and the law, constitutional law) at the University of Florida have accepted senior offers from the law school at Emory University (Woodhouse will start in fall 2009). It’s been a busy year for Emory, which has now…
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“American Freedom Campaign” Organizing E-Mail-Campaign to Fire John Yoo
The details about this disgraceful attack on the academy and tenure are here. Professor Yoo holds morally reprehensible views and his legal work on the so-called "torture memos" was obviously shoddy. Neither consideration constitutes grounds for terminating the employment of a tenured law professor. Tenure, and academic freedom, would mean nothing if every professor with…
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Dorr, Moss from Pittsburgh to Oxford
Cian Dorr (metaphysics, philosophy of language), Associate Professor of Philosophy, and Jessica Moss (ancient philosophy), Assistant Professor of Philosophy, both at the University of Pittsburgh, have turned down the offers from Rutgers and accepted appointments at Oxford University, he with the title Senior Faculty Lecturer and she as Fellow of Balliol College.
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Political Group Organizing E-Mail Campaign to Get John Yoo Fired
More details about this disgraceful attack on tenure and academic freedom are here. That it comes from a "progressive" political organization makes it all the more reprehensible and inexplicable. UPDATE: For more developments, see the update here.
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New York Law School on the Move: Bonfield, Chused, and Tracht
In addition to Gerald Korngold from Case Western, New York Law School has also made (or recently made) tenured hires of Lloyd Bonfield (property, EU law, legal history) from Tulae University, Richard Chused (property, copyright, Cyberlaw) from Georgetown University, and Marshall Tracht (real estate transactions, bankruptcy) from Hofstra University. All are affiliated with NYLS’s Center…
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Clark from Colgate to UC Riverside
Maudemarie Clark, the leading senior scholar in the field of Nietzsche studies, who is presently Carleton Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University, has accepted the senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of California at Riverside. With five distinguished tenured faculty working in and around Kant and post-Kantian Continental philosophy (besides Clark,…
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Cassam from Cambridge to Warwick
Quassim Cassam (metaphysics, epistemology, Kant, philosophy of mind), who not long ago took up the Knightbridge Professorship at Cambridge, has now accepted a Professorship at the University of Warwick, effective January 1, 2009. Warwick has been on an aggressive hiring spree over the last several years, adding, among others, Bill Brewer from Oxford, A.D. Smith…
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Roberts from Syracuse Public Affairs to Suffolk Law
Alasdair Roberts, a professor of public administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University (one of the top public affairs schools in the U.S.), will join Suffolk University Law School this fall as the first holder of the Rappaport Chair in Law and Public Policy. The Suffolk press release is…
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A New Law School in Rochester?
Story here. The Buffalo folks aren’t happy (understandably) that it may get some state money.
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Wingo from U Mass/Boston to Colorado
Ajume Wingo (social & political philosophy, African philosophy, aesthetics), currently at the University of Massachussetts at Boston, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to begin this fall.
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McGill TAs on Strike!
A philosophy grad student at McGill points me to a web site with information about the situation for McGill TAs and the issues that prompted the strike. Since Canada has actual labor laws that protect the rights of workers to effective collective bargaining and actions, one may hope there will be a timely and fair…
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Another Tenured Hire for UC Riverside: Jaworska
Agnieszka Jaworska (ethics), currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, has accepted a tenured offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside.
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Korngold from Case Western to New York Law School
Gerald Korngold (real estate transactions, property), who has taught at Case Western Reserve University for more than twenty years and also served as Dean of the law school for almost a decade, has accepted a senior offer from New York Law School.
I’m a graduate student in philosophy at a well-known terminal MA program who is applying to PhDs this fall and…