February 2009
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Arizona’s Richard Healey Wins 2008 Lakatos Prize in Philosophy of Science
Here. This is very much the "gold standard" of recognition for work in philosophy of science.
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Interim Dean Greorge Johnson Named Dean at Elon
News release here.
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The “Feminist Law Profs” Blog has…
…a new location.
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Some Schools Increase Hiring to Take Advantage of a Weak Academic Job Market
Curious story here. I do wonder how widespread a phenomenon this is. (Thanks to Christopher Morris for the pointer.)
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Profound or Merely “Clever”?
Jonathan Wolff (UCL) comments.
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Finalists for Deanship at University of Maryland School of Law
Here; they are: Wendy Collins Perdue (Georgetown); Phoebe Haddon (Temple); Linda Mullenix (Texas); Mark Sargent, who is currently Dean at Villanova (where he has been very successful); and, perhaps most interestingly and unusually, Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears of the Supreme Court of Georgia. UPDATE (2/18): Dean Sargent tells me he's withdrawn from the search…
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Two Senior HIres for Wash U/St. Louis: Kuehn from Alabama, Tamanaha from St. John’s
The law school at Washington University, St. Louis has made two senior hires: Robert Kuehn (environmental law) from the University of Alabama, and Brian Tamanaha (legal theory, socio-legal studies) from St. John's University.
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Philosopher J.D. Trout (Loyola/Chicago) in NY Times
He "talks" with snarky reporter Deborah Solomon in her weekly column.
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Good News for Grad Students at Private Schools
Obama's pick as head of the NLRB is a supporter of your right to organize unions. Grad students at the University of Michigan were unionized when I was there, and I can recall that our terms of employment and benefits were far better than our peers at many private institutions.
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Most of the U.S. Now Identifies with the Democratic Party
Which is obviously good, since, as one blogger recently noted, the Republican Party is "populated and led by miserable, repellent sociopaths who have managed, in eight miserable years, to wreck this country and effectively obliterate another." On the other hand, let's not get too cheery: the Democratic party is still far to the right of every…
Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii