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    In memory of the inventor of this ingenious argument and its faithful reporter, both recently lost: “Is the ontological argument…

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    Worldly Indeterminacy, by Chien-hsing Ho, at Oxford University Press. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/book/63418. Description The book provides a framework to support…

Yale’s Eskridge Tells Congress He Was Denied Tenure at Virginia Because of Sexual Orientation Discrimination

This blog has the relevant excerpt from the testimony by William Eskridge, Jr. (Yale); it also contains a link to the full testimony (the relevant portion is on pp. 85 ff.).   It does read a bit as "settling a score," but knowing nothing of the underlying merits, it may well be a score that deserves to be settled.  I wonder whether the University of Virginia Law School will issue a formal response.

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    Yale law professor Bill Eskridge testifies before Congress on the pending Employment and Non-Discrimination Act of 2009, which would “bar sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in the workplace by states as well as by private employers,”…

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