April 2010
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Edward Cheng from Brooklyn to Vanderbilt
Professor Edward Cheng, of Brooklyn Law School, has accepted a tenured faculty offer from Vanderbilt Law School. Professor Cheng is an evidence scholar. He has been at Brooklyn Law since 2003.
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A moratorium on PhD Admissions?
Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA) writes: Perhaps, in light of the economic crisis, the bleak job market, the hiring freezes across the country, and the backlog of recent PhD's waiting for tenure-track jobs to open up (and so available for TA-ships and lecturing), Departments across the profession should agree to self-impose a one-year freeze in admissions to…
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In Memoriam: Pierre Hadot (1922-2010)
The French scholar and populizer of ancient philosophy has passed away. There is a short obituary (in French) here. (Thanks to David Gordon for flagging this for me.)
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Top Corporate & Securities Articles for 2009
Robert Thompson (Vanderbilt, moving to Georgetown) has sent me the articles chosen in this year's Corporate Practice Commentator poll. Schools with the most authors with winning articles are: Penn (T. Baker, W. Bratton, M. Wachter, J. Fisch, E. Rock), NYU (S. Choi, M. Kahan [twice]), Berkeley (Bartlett, Talley), and Georgetown (Langevoort, Thompson). Other authors on…
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“Gordon Liu: Wrong Man for the 9th Circuit” (real headline)
Indeed, especially since no Gordon Liu has been nominated. I like the quote from Professor Painter of Minnesota: "There are real left-wingers in the" academy. That sounds scary. Happily, Professor Painter assures us that Professor Liu is not one of them. Whew! (Thanks to Diane Amann for the pointer.) UPDATE: Alas, they finally caught the…
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I sure wish I could attend…
…this conference. (And I know I don't do conference announcements ordinarily, but I am indirectly involved with this one.)
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Philosophy of Bestiality and other ethical quandaries…
…come to Bloggingheads TV.
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Philosopher Jollimore on Philosopher Nussbaum: The Need for the Humanities
Useful discussion here. (Link now fixed.) (Thanks to Mark Couch for the pointer.)
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Annals of Academic Pettiness
MOVING TO FRONT FROM APRIL 19: SEE UPDATE This really takes the prize. I do find it hard to believe that anyone gives any credence to (or could care about) anonymous Amazon reviews of scholarly books. (Thanks to David Fraser for the pointer.) UPDATE: As several readers have pointed out, this saga has now gotten even more…
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Update on the Situation at King’s College, London
And it's not good.
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Are You “Eminent,” or Merely “Prominent”?
Jo Wolff (UCL) comments.
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University of Oregon General Counsel “Reassigned” to the Law School
University of Oregon General Counsel, Melinda Grier, has been at the center of swirling controversy regarding Mike Bellotti, the Ducks departing athletic director. There has been uproar regarding both the terms of Bellotti's compensation deal and the school's lack of transparency regarding the contracts. There would be nothing particularly interesting about this – to me…
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“Above the Law” Blog Hits New Low
I realize most reader will consider this unremarkable, but even I was stunned when a supporter of Professor Liu called this one to my attention: David Lat actually called attention to a hatchet job by the crypto-fascist "journalist" Michelle Malkin regarding Goodwin Liu. Really. What's next? "Above the Law" links to Michael Savage? David Duke?
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Why Facebook is Indispensable!
The proof.
I’m a mathematician who works in AI, and although I’m not directly involved, what I hear from my colleagues is…