May 2010
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New York Law School Gets $20 Million Gift
New York Law School announced on Wednesday that it had received a $20 million gift from the Starr Foundation. According to this story: The donation has been given in the name of The Starr Foundation Chairman Maurice Greenberg, an alumnus of the law school, which he attended using scholarship money he received after serving in the…
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Fiddling While Rome Burns
When I saw the title of Bob Morse's recent blog posting–"U.S. News Takes Steps to Stop Law Schools From Manipulating the Rankings"–I thought, at last, U.S. News was going to do something about the massive fraud on the public in which they are now deeply implicated. But, no, this is just tinkering with trivia. When…
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Ronald Mann to Remain at Columbia, Not Returning to Texas
Sometimes it ain't over, till it's over, as Yogi Berra would say.
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Since the Middlesex Administrators Are Confused About What “Universities” Do…
…perhaps someone should send them a copy of this book, which is, alas, all-too-timely.
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Congratulations to the Chicago Alumni Who Have Accepted Tenure-Track Positions for This Fall
They are: Renee Knake '99, who will join the faculty at Michigan State University. Jake Linford '08, who will join the faculty at Florida State University. Jamie Lund '06, who will join the faculty at St. Mary's University. Amelia Rinehart '02, who will join the faculty at the University of Utah. Arden Rowell '06, who…
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Joyce from Sydney to Victoria University/Wellington
Richard Joyce, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and a leading writer in metaethics and moral psychology, has accepted an appointment as Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University, Wellington–where he will join Simon Keller, one of the most interesting political philosophers of his generation, in making Victoria U. probably the best place…
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Marquette Dean Crisis Continues; Faculty Not Ready to “Heal and Move On”
A couple of weeks ago, I noted that Marquette had offered the deanship of Arts and Sciences to sociologist Jodi O'Brien. O'Brien, who is on the faculty of the Jesuit Seattle University, is an out lesbian who writes about issues of religion and homosexuality. For whatever reason – Marquette's official position amounts to "we were lazy…
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Should Junior Faculty Post Work on SSRN and, If So, When?
A tenured colleague elsewhere asks: "What about this issue of posting articles on SSRN pre-offer or pre-publication in a review. Good practice or bad for junior people? " Here's what I typically tell junior faculty: do not post anything on SSRN (or anywhere else on the web) until it's an essentially penultimate draft. Junior people, not…
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Addicted to Deaning?
It may be hard to believe, but some faculty are!
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More on the Middlesex Insanity
This site has more information and details about the suspension of students and faculty who were protesting the decision to eliminate the school's most highly RAE-rated program. In the United States, this kind of heavy-handed behavior by the administration would result in civil lawsuits, which the school would almost certainly lose; I do not know whether…
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Seeking a “Minister for Women and Equalities”? Pick Someone Hostile to Gay Men and Women, Of Course
That's what the new Tory government has done in choosing Theresa May. N.A.T. Coleman (Michigan), who flagged this issue for me, summarizes the case against her in response to a column in The Guardian claiming that the petition against her "perhaps helps illustrate how you often get little respect for changing your mind". Coleman writes: On the…
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More ACLS Fellowship News for 2010
Several philosophy faculty have won awards from the American Council of Learned Society fellowship competitions (full lists are here). ACLS Fellowships: Matthew Boyle (Harvard) and Tyler Burge (UCLA). Ryskamp Reearch Fellowship: Elisabeth Camp (Penn). Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars: Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA). Collaborative Research Fellowship: Nicholas Huggett (Illinois/Chicago) and Christian Wüthrich (UC San…
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It’s Now Official: The Middlesex Administration is Bonkers
They have suspended professors who participated with students in a sit-in protesting the elimination of the philosophy program. Protevi has details. Suspension?!?
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A Poll: What is the best way to evaluate the *scholarly* quality of a law faculty?
Is it through scholarly impact/citation studies (like this one)? Or reputational surveys (such as here or here)? Or SSRN downloads (e.g., here)? Or is there no reliable way to gauge this? Take the poll. UPDATE: A comment from a reader leads me to realize that I should emphasize that you should please interpret the categories…
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…