September 2008
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In the Market for Junior Laterals?
I have a very strong candidate (currently on tenure-track), with published work and work-in-progress (mostly in constitutional law area), plus teaching experience in a variety of (non-constitutiional) bread-and-butter courses (both first-year and upper-level). S/he has several high-profile references. No geographic restrictions. If you’re interested, please e-mail me for details.
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Sarah Palin Has Her Own Blog!
Here. Well, it sure sounds a heck of a lot like Sarah Palin. (Thanks to Nick Bujak for the pointer.) UPDATE: Jerry Dworkin (UC Davis) writes: "That Palin blog inspired me to create the following definition of Palindrome: A word that when said backwards means the opposite of what it means said forward."
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Wenar from Sheffield to King’s College Law School
Leif Wenar (political philosophy), previously Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, has taken up a Chair in Ethics on the law faculty at King’s College, London, effective this fall. With Wenar, Timothy Macklem, and Raymond Plant, among others, on the law faculty, KCL probably has the strongest philosophical profile of any of the…
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SJD Programs: Worth It for a US JD?
An aspiring law professor writes: I’m a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, generally interested in the academic teaching market, and a fan of your blog. To the extent you have not covered this issue on your blog in the past, I would like to suggest that you address S.J.D. programs. Among the questions that…
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New Blog Soliciting and Posting Announcements about Conferences and “Calls for Papers”
The blog is here (courtesy of some Buffalo PhD students) and you can send them announcements for posting via this address. As readers know, I don’t post these kinds of announcements, but I hope readers will take advantage of this new site and also spread the word (and link to it). I will add it…
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Why Is This Presidential Election Even Close?
Historian Juan Cole (Michigan) is, shall we say, a bit puzzled. Racism and the apparently bottomless stupidity of a certain portion of the electorate would seem simpler explanations.
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Prospective Students (esp. those from overseas): Watch Out for “Underfunded” Programs and High Teaching Loads!
A prominent philosopher writes: I have come across a number of graduate students — typically students from overseas — at [school name omitted] who complain about somewhat appalling conditions there. I may be wrong but here is my perception of what is going on: truckloads of overseas graduate students are being admitted without a proper…
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The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same
From the 1973 Blau-Marguiles survey of law schools Deans, the top five law schools: 1. Harvard University 2. Yale University 3. Columbia University 3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 5. University of Chicago From the 1974-75 Blau-Marguiles survey of law school Deans, the top nine schools: 1. Harvard University 2. Yale University 3. University of…
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How did Sarah Palin Get Elected Governor of Alaska?
Because a Kenyan witchhunter prayed for it. It will be amusing to watch the Palin apologists try to spin this one. (Thanks to Justin Sytsma for the pointer.) Meanwhile, there’s more on the frightening Palin-McCain road show here (and, yes, the order of the names is intentional for reasons the link makes clear). UPDATE: A…
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The End of American Capitalism, Law Professor Version
A German philosopher of the 19th-century, whose name now escapes me, once observed that in capitalist societies, "The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." Events over the last week certainly confirm the wisdom of the observation, as the executive branch prepares to bail…
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Race and the U.S. Election
This is worrisome, especially since Obama’s lead in most national polls is still quite modest.
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Teaching Philosophy in a practical world (Edmundson)
Jonathan Mahler has written a sympathetic profile of Auburn philosophy chair and professor Kelly Jolley.
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The Five Stages Not of Confronting Death…
…but realizing that Sarah Palin might be Vice-President of the United States. (One might, of course, think the same applies to the guy on the top of the ticket…or maybe Professor Muller started with ‘abject terror’ on that one!)
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The Five Stages Not of Confronting Death…
…but realizing that Sarah Palin might be Vice-President of the United States. (One might, of course, think the same applies to the guy on the top of the ticket…or maybe Professor Muller started with ‘abject terror’ on that one!)
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…