November 2008
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On the Atrocities in Mumbai
This is worth reading.
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“Change We Can Believe In?” Part III
Analysis here; an excerpt: [W]hat can we realistically expect of an Obama administration? We have two sources of information: actions and rhetoric…. The first post-election appointment was for the crucial position of chief of staff: Rahm Emanuel, one of the strongest supporters of the Iraq invasion among House Democrats and like Biden, a long-term Washington…
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Metz from Witwatersrand to Johannesburg
Thaddeus Metz (ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law), Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, has accepted appointment as Humanities Research Professor at the University of Johannesburg. (Metz was both the youngest professor and the only philosopher to get the highest rating by the National Research Foundation in South Africa earlier this year.)
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Law professor/historian Gordon-Reed Wins National Book Award
Annette Gordon-Reed, a law professor at New York Law School and a history professor at Rutgers University, has won the National Book Award for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. The news release is here. It's been a rather good week for New York Law School! UPDATE: Some interesting context and background to this award and…
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Department of Unintended Ironies
Here: "Garden gnomes have been banned from cemeteries by a church diocese because leaders say they are ‘unnatural creatures’." (Thanks to Ruchira Paul for the pointer.)
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Charles from Minnesota to Duke
Guy-Uriel Charles (constitutional law, law & politics, election law) at the University of Minnesota Law School has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Duke University, where he is visiting this year. He will start full-time in fall 2009 and also serve as founding director of a new Center on Race and Politics.
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Smoking Habit a Liability on the Job Market?
A candidate on the teaching market writes: I am a cigarette smoker (at least one pack a day), and it occurred to me that this fact, when known, very well could play a role in a hiring decision. I was wondering if you or your readers had any thoughts about this. Please, if posted, refrain…
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NYLS’s Reza Named 2008 Carnegie Scholar
The Carnegie Corporation has been awarding Fellowships to scholars studying different aspects of Islam and the Islamic world over the past half-dozen years; the 2008 winners are here, and include New York Law School professor Sadiq Reza. Past law faculty winners include Khaled About el Fadl (UCLA), Noah Feldman (Harvard), Clark Lombardi (Washington/Seattle), Kristen Stilt…
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Morison from Oxford to Princeton
PLEASE SEE UPDATE, BELOW Ben Morison, a leading young scholar of ancient philosophy at Oxford University, has accepted a tenured appointment at Princeton University, starting next year. Morison will join Hendrik Lorenz (recently tenured), Alexander Nehamas, John Cooper (who is reported to be thinking of retiring), and Christian Wildberg (in Classics) to sustain Princeton’s leading…
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In Memoriam: Mary C. Daly (1947-2008)
I am sorry to report that Mary Daly, Dean of the law school at St. John's University, has passed away. The St. John's memorial notice is here.
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Penultimate Draft Faculty Lists for 2008 Surveys: Last Chance for Additions/Corrections
Here is the draft list, based on all the feedback received since this morning (Nov. 23):Download pgr_faculty_lists_2008.rtf . My sincere thanks to the dozens of philosophers who have already submited information. The Advisory Board is presently voting on about a dozen faculties that have requested inclusion in the survey. Since I have faculty lists for…
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Draft Faculty Lists for New PGR Surveys for 08-09
MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCTOBER 27–LISTS NOT UPDATED SINCE OCTOBER 27: PLEASE POST ADDITIONS/CORRECTIONS IN COMMENTS BELOW. THESE LISTS WILL BE FINALIZED WITHIN THE WEEK. THANKS FOR ALL THE FEEDBACK AND HELP. I’m now feeling more hopeful that we will be able to complete a new set of PGR surveys for 2008 later this fall. …
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Law Profs in the Obama Administration
MOVING TO FRONT FROM NOV. 16–LOTS OF UPDATES! Nan Hunter (Georgetown) is compiling the information.
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Penn Law Professor and Provost (and former Toronto Law Dean) Ron Daniels Named President of Johns Hopkins
The Hopkins press release is here. I assume it omits mention of the case for which he is rather more notorious in Canada, involving a cheating scandal at the University of Toronto law school, in which an Ontario court eventually held in favor of one of the students who had been punished inappropriately by the…
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…