March 2011
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Law School Faculty Visitors 2011 – 2012
Jacqui Lipton is keeping a list of full-time law faculty who will be visiting at other law schools next year. Read all about next year's visits - and help out by sharing relevant information - here.
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Signs of the (Republican) Times
Here: Michigan, whose unemployment rate has topped 10 percent longer than that of any other state, is about to set another record: its new Republican governor, Rick Snyder, signed a law Monday that will lead the state to pay fewer weeks of unemployment benefits next year than any other state…. “It turns the clock back…
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UNLV’s Fate–and Philosophy’s in Particular–Now in the Hands of the Legislature
A Nevada reader passes on the following useful information; I suggest e-mail, unless you are a Nevada resident, in which case you might consider calling: ================================ Jim Rogers (former Chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education) has identified Nevada legislators who might be sympathetic to standing up to Gov. Sandoval's draconian budget proposal and…
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Sarkar on Monton on “Intelligent Design”
This seems a fair appraisal of a very odd (and, as Sarkar says, "unusually pretentious") book.
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Tories Want AHRC Funding for Research to be Directed Towards Their Ideological Program
Many readers have now sent this item which, even by the standards of foolish bureaucratic meddling in British higher education, is in a league by itself for destructiveness. Thoughts from readers?
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Christopher Tomlins Wins Bancroft Prize
Christopher Tomlins, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at UC-Irvine Law School, and Research Professor Emeritus at the American Bar Foundation, Chicago, has been awarded the 2011 Bancroft Prize for his book, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America 1580-1865 (Cambridge University Press 2010). Al Brophy has some thoughts about the book's implications…
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Entry Level Law School Hiring
Sadly, Larry Solum is no longer tracking entry level hiring over at Legal Theory Blog. (I've linked to his reports from prior years here.) But there's good news! The folks at Prawfsblawg are doing the mitzvah now. Report new law hires here. Tim Zinnecker is analyzing these these reports over at the Faculty Lounge here.
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Wisconsin Republican Party Seeks E-Mails of UW-Madison History Professor Critical of Governor Walker
Many readers have sent this story. Unfortunately, I'm quite busy today, but I will try to say more next week. Very briefly, it's clear that this is an attempt to harass Professor Cronon and probably constitutes an abuse of process; it's much less clear that it violates academic freedom, though it arguably impinges upon Professor…
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Some (Temporary) Good News from Keele
Several readers forwarded this e-mail about developments at Keele: We are please to report that, following constructive discussions with senior management yesterday and the extraordinary meetings of the Faculty Board and Senate today, it has been agreed that the proposal to close down the Philosophy Programme at Keele will be reconsidered and that Philosophy will…
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X-Phil and Free Will in The New York Times
Here. Leave it to John Tierney, though, to give the wrong answer to the title question!
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Leib from Hastings to Fordham
Ethan J. Leib, Professor of Law at UC – Hastings, has accepted a tenured lateral offer from Fordham. Proefssor Leib has published in a diverse array of fields, with a recent emphasis on the area of friendship and family ties.
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Solnit on “Hope and Turmoil in 2011”
An interesting set of reflections.
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Top Ten Law Schools By Admissions Yield
Here's an interesting piece of information from US News. The magazine-turned-ranking machine has created a list of the top 10 law schools based on yield – that is, the number of matriculants divided by the number of people admitted. It turns out that this is a very curious list. In order, they are: Yale, BYU,…
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Beating a Dead Horse: Sociologists Tear Apart the 2010 NRC Rankings
Story and links here. Some of our earlier coverage here.
I’m not sure whether an interactive, online logic textbook counts as an open-access philosophy book, but for those who might…