September 2008
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Dignam from Yale to Columbia
Brett Dignam, a clinical professor at Yale Law School for more than fifteen years and a leading advocate for the rights of prisoners, will join the clinical law faculty at Columbia in July 2010. I usually don’t cover moves of clinical faculty (only so many hours in the day, you know, and I’m less connected…
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More on Nagel’s “Shark Jump”
Here, courtesy of philosopher of biology Mohan Matthen (Toronto). (The earlier item was here.)
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I guess this is (roughly) how Sinclair Lewis thought fascism…
…would come to America.
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Harvard v. Yale in the Boston Globe
An amusing piece here. Regarding HLS’s Dean Kagan: "Can this woman get no bad press?" It appears not!
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Tired of American Election Blogging?
You can try Canadian election blogging, courtesy of Mohan Matthen (Toronto).
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Russell Korobkin (UCLA) States the Obvious…
at the right-wing Volokh blog, and the commenters go beserk. I think this is called the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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More Fun with ID Apologist Steve Fuller
This time it’s A.C. Grayling’s turn.
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New Ranking of Canadian Law Schools…
…here. This year, we made several adjustments to the data, in response to helpful feedback last year: we added hiring by major firms in cities, like Edmonton, that had been unrepresented or underrepresented using the Canadian analogue of the Vault list of the most prestigious law firms; we expanded the public sector hiring to include…
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Good Blog Coverage of the Presidential Election
Talking Points Memo. I’m sure many readers already know this site, but I expect many of those abroad do not. It’s a useful and intelligent site, that also doesn’t mince words with respect to the Imprudent Wing of the Republocrat Party. Meanwhile, as several readers pointed out, people outside the U.S. prefer Obama over McCain…
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Roger Williams Law School Updates and Expands Its Study of Scholarly Productivity
The new data is here. This time they looked at scholarly productivity over a 15-year period of all the law schools outside the U.S. News "top 50." Not too surprisingly–at least to anyone familiar with my rankings–the top three ‘most productive’ faculties not in the U.S. News top 50 were San Diego, Cardozo, and Florida…
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Which Top Law Faculties are the Most Conservative These Days?
This data–contributions to political candidates during the 2008 Presidential election by law faculty–is hardly decisive, but it certainly fits with what I know about the faculties in question. 100% of donations by law faculty at Harvard, Chicago, Michigan, Stanford, Texas, Berkeley, and Penn went to Democrats, 0% to Republicans. (Penn is the main surprise here,…
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In Memoriam: Richard E. Speidel (1933-2008)
I am sorry to report that Richard Speidel, one of the major American figures in contracts, commercial law and arbitration of the past forty years, passed away on September 6. At the time of his death he was an emeritus professor at Northwestern University School of Law as well as serving, part of each year,…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii