May 2011
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Corporate Practice Commentator’s “Top 10” Corporate & Securities Articles for 2010
Here it is: The Corporate Practice Commentator is pleased to announce the results of its seventeenth annual poll to select the ten best corporate and securities articles. Teachers in corporate and securities law were asked to select the best corporate and securities articles from a list of articles published and indexed in legal journals during…
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Bipartisanship has no value…
…when one party is bonkers. Being a loyal Democrat (I am not) is itself a case of bipartisanship, since the Party is now home to a handful of genuine social democrats, as well as large numbers of politicans who would have been Republicans in the 1970s. Yet another consequence of the pernicious Reagan legacy.
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Zombie Philosophy
It's baaack, and with the same hack editor. Alas. At least nothing about philosophers falling into wells yet.
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Not the Kind of Attention One Wants a New Faculty Appointment to Attract
It is a bit surprising that a law school like Georgia with a strong tradition in international law would hire someone with this disgraceful incident in his background.
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PGR Draft Faculty Lists Update
I'll have a third draft up during the week; the 2nd draft is here.
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Synthese Poll Results
The poll is now closed, after 925 votes (there were only a dozen or so votes each of the last two days, so I think the poll has exhausted itself at this point). 71% of the 925 respondents report that their opinion of Synthese under the current editorship is now lower because of this scandal, a pretty dramatic result. …
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Smearing Feminist Academics, UK-Style
One might have thought MPs had better things to do.
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Synthese: A Subscription Boycott?
Gabriele Contessa (Carleton) makes an interesting proposal, and invites signatories in support. (He is mistaken, alas, in thinking anyone is "rejoicing" about this fiasco–in any case, I have seen no evidence of that.)
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Support Damon Fowler!
He stood up to the Louisiana Taliban. (Thanks to Nate Gould for the initial pointer to this story.)
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Minnesota Taliban
Hard to believe it could happen in a nice state like Minnesota.
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The world has not ended…
…but the Synthese tribulations continue.
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Synthese: What to do now?
MOVING TO FRONT FROM MAY 15–MORE INPUT FROM SIGNATORIES OF THE PETITION WELCOME The recent response from the EICs of Synthese, together with other information in the press, confirms several of the allegations to date: that Synthese was lobbied by Beckwith, as well as friends of Beckwith and Intelligent Design; that Synthese received legal threats,…
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Iowa’s Margaret Raymond Named Dean at Wisconsin
Details here. UPDATE: Dean-to-be Raymond's husband, Mark Sidel–a specialist in comparative and international law, as well as legal issues related to philanthropy and the nonprofit sector–will also leave the Iowa faculty to take up a tenured post at Wisconsin.
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European formal philosophers, don’t relax yet…
…we ain't done with Synthese yet! More next week… UPDATE: It has come to my attention that one self-identified "European formal philosopher," who shares the concerns about the editorial misconduct at Synthese, has taken offense at my attempt to introduce a note of levity into this affair. So I hereby make clear that, of course,…
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Weather forecast for Judgment Day
Good to know. ADDENDUM: Useful pre-Rapture tips.
We haven’t discussed this in our department (lower ranked PGR but tend to get highly competitive/very large applicant pool) but…