March 2011
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Four Senior Hires for Georgia
The University of Georgia School of Law has had a busy year, making four tenured appointments: Diane Amann (international law) from the University of California at Davis will take up their Woodruff Chair in International Law; Elizabeth Chamblee Burch (complex litigation) comes to Georgia from Florida State University; Elizabeth Weeks Leoanrd (health care finance) from…
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Books received in March
Publishers and/or authors kindly sent me the following books this month: The Contents of Visual Experience by Susanna Siegel (Oxford University Press, 2010). Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey (Princeton University Press, 2011). Elemental Philosophy: Earth, Air, Fire and Water as Environmental Ideas by David Macauley (SUNY Press, 2010). Braintrust: What Neuroscience…
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Rougeau Named Dean at BC
Boston College School of Law is announcing today that Professor Vincent Rougeau, of Notre Dame Law, will become its new Dean. He takes over on July 1. Rougeau writes about the relationship between religion and public policy. My guess is that his service will be a big shift from the deanship of John Garvey. He is the first African-American dean…
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Are some schools using undisclosed GRE cut-offs in admissions decisions?
An undergraduate student writes: There appears to be many philosophy graduate school departments that have unannounced GRE cutoffs at a verbal score of 700. All of the applications with verbal scores lower than 700 do not make it past the initial, most basic stage of review. I have spoken with a Director of Graduate Studies who somewhat embarrassingly admitted this…
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AALS Issues Strong Response to Proposed ABA Accreditation Standards
The Standards Review Committee of the ABA's Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar has proposed a number of very substantial changes to the accreditation standards for law schools. The proposed changes – which are quite dramatic - up-end current ABA rules on tenure, governance, use of the LSAT and distance education, among other…
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Philosophy at University of Greenwich to be Closed
There's a Facebook page in support of the department already. I'm opening comments for those with more information to post links and/or relevant contacts etc. (Thanks to Ben Jones for the pointer.) The Chair, Kath Jones, has posted the following on the FB page: The situation: The management of the School of Humanities has closed…
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Hughes from Wash U/St. Louis to Iowa
Emily Hughes (criminal law & procedure) at Washington University, St. Louis has accepted a senior offer from the law school at the University of Iowa.
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A new on-line, open access political theory journal
Here. Do see the interesting piece on Machiavelli by my poli sci colleague John McCormick.
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Right-Wing “Think” Tanks in Michigan Now Going After the E-Mails of State University Professors
Many readers have sent this story. Readers at public universities take note: the right-wing zealots have now identified this as a new tactic for intimidating and harassing academic critics of the plutocracy. The class war being waged against unionized workers is now branching out to their supporters. Although it remains to be seen how the courts…
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Is Now the Time to Apply to Law School?
Over at Slate, Annie Lowrey argues that the surge of law school applicants and graduates was a bubble and that the bubble was burst by cultural, rather than economic forces. In the past year or two, scads of blogs have committed themselves to exposing law school as a "scam," and the New York Times and…
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Petition in Opposition to the AHRC’s Proposal to Favor Work on “the Big Society”
Here. Those teaching or studying in Britain, British citizens, and those who have refereed for the AHRC should all consider signing.
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What to do about sexual harassment in philosophy?
The question is raised pointedly here. The temptation to name names, of course, is great, but the risk of defamation actions are real, even if truth is a defense. You can join the discussion.
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The Philosophy of David Foster Wallace
Here. The novelist, as many readers will recall, was the son of the distinguished moral philosopher James Wallace, now emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…