June 2009
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A note on “post only once” in comment threads
When I say "post only once," I mean submit your comment only once, not that you may not submit more than one comment. But since comments are moderated, when you submit the comment it won't appear right away. If you submit more than once, it just clutters up my in-box. But someone who has substantive
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The Illinois Legislature’s Higher Education Scholarship Boondoggle
A colleague at the University of Illinois writes: An aspect of the admissions ruckus at UI that is not getting nearly enough attention is that each member of the legislature has two 4 year full scholarships to state schools to hand out with no criteria whatsoever (and can even do them in 8 one year
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Right-Wing Crazies Go Crazy About Sunstein!
Senator Chambliss of Georgia has placed a "hold" on his nomination, and this site gives an indication of what's driving these folks wild. The ironies here are immense: Sunstein is a 'moderate' (by US standards) on a whole host of central economic and regulatory issues, but his relatively 'liberal' positions on animal rights and gay marriage clearly
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Reader feedback sought
What are you favorite features/topics/subject on the blog? Please vote! This will help me, perhaps, in knowing where to focus my efforts. Thanks.
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DePaul Deanship Fiasco Update–More on Provost Epp’s Heavy-Handed Tactics
(Start here for earlier coverage.) Trouble between former DePaul Law Dean Weissenberger and DePaul Provost Epp goes back to at least January of this year, when Provost Epp gave Weissenberger 24 hours to rescind several offers to faculty, senior and junior, even though the offers had been made in accordance with university procedures. Weissenberger declined,
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Is “Secular Moral Theory” Really Relatively Young?
It is sometimes said (e.g., by Parfit, by Brink, and others) that "secular moral theory" is a relative new field compared to systematic theorizing in the natural sciences, so it is not surprising that there is more disagreement about ethical matters since we haven't had as much time (or made as much effort) to make systematic
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The Chicago Tribune Series on Political Muscle and U of Illinois Admissions
The Chicago Tribune has run a series of articles (start here and follow the links) on the use of political clout to get sub-par students admitted to the University of Illinois (including the law school), but appears to have missed the actual story (they are journalists, after all): the University of Illinois is hostage to the public purse for
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University of North Texas to Open New Public Law School in Dallas
It's now official. SMU has a niche in the Dallas market that will be unaffected by this development, I imagine; the bigger risk is for Texas Wesleyan, which is also private, but not as old or established in the legal community as SMU. Of course, this is on the assumption that UNT will have significantly
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Sinnott-Armstrong from Dartmouth to Duke
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, well-known for his work in a variety of areas (epistemology, ethics, moral psychology, among others), and a longtime faculty member at Dartmouth College has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Duke University, where he will start in Spring 2010. Duke has made a substantial investment in value theory over
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