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If much of the interest of high-quality papers lies between the lines—in the metaphorical fire that a paper lights in…
I would also recommend that potential grad students make inquiries into how far the compensation package actually goes towards cost…
It’s a mix. I’m still in the UAE with my family, and we feel safe. But some students and faculty…
In the above comment, Michel wrote: “As an aside, every once in a while I check out how the chatbots…
I could imagine LLMs having saved me a *ton* of time in graduate school–e.g., by having supplied reasonable answers to…
The McMaster Department of Philosophy has now put together the following notice commemorating Barry: Barry Allen: A Philosophical Life Barry…
Turns out there are a lot of them, more than I knew. Here are the law bloggers who've started just in the last six months! Who is reading all these blogs? I confess to having not even been aware of most of them. As these additional stats make clear, blogging has become almost de rigeur at many schools for significant portions of the faculty. Indeed, more than 5% of law professors in the United States are now blogging, it appears!
Law School Blogging Rankings
Via Brian Leiter, I came across two rankings of law schools by blogging stats. First, number of blogs to which professors at a given school contribute. UCLA ranks in the 17-26 tier with six. Second, number of professors at the school that blog. UCLA ra…
My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…