July 2011
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New Books in July
Publishers and/or authors kindly sent me the following books this month: Justifying Intellectual Property by Robert P. Merges (Harvard University Press, 2011) Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity by Iain D. Thomson (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
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Is anyone familiar with an institution where the university took 45% or more of the law school’s tuition revenue?
Signed comments only. As best I can tell, Baltimore is sui generis. UPDATE: Just to avoid confusion, all universities take some portion of a law school's tuition revenue, as they should, since university budgets provide all kinds of services from which law schools and their students benefit. The question is only one about proportions, and the…
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The Ruling Class is Not Amused
Quite rightly, but perhaps they shall encourage some of their members to stop enabling the infantile "Tea Partiers" and other assorted crazies.
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Popular Baltimore Law Dean Closius Forced Out by University Admin…
…which apparently didn't appreciate his objecting to the university capturing 45% (!!!) of law school tuition for non-law school purposes. C.J. Peters, one of a number of faculty recruited laterally to Baltimore by Dean Closius, writes: If you look at the two key measures of a law school’s quality – faculty and student body – you’ll…
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The long reach of Reagan into the Obama Administration
This author is basically making my point, though more gingerly. Krugman's column today is also relevant, though the issue isn't that the Republicans are "extreme" (though they are, even by the conservative standards of the U.S.) but that their extremism involves an ugly mix of moral depravity and ignorance.
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Leading Academics Talk about God (or, more accurately for most, belief in God)
Lots of philosophers in the mix. (Thanks to Jeff Roland for the pointer.)
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ABA Adopts Changes in Employment Data It Will Collect
The official announcement is here. U.S. News is certain to change its formula in light of this, though how remains to be seen. The results should be revealing, assuming the traditional reluctance of law schools to lie to the ABA continues to hold.
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A better job market in 2011-12?
A reader writes: Do you think this portends a better job market this year in Philosophy? I would think "yes" as it means universities are starting to hire more, but I'm not sure. The linked article concerns the increase in jobs in the political science market during the 2010-11 academic year, after several years of…
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Underdogs, underrated, unfashionable
Philosophers, that is.
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Updated Information on Submitting to Law Reviews
Courtesy of Professors Rostron and Levit.
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Observations from the American One-Party State
An apt excerpt: [M]y Salon colleague Glenn Greenwald has expertly documented the current supremacy of transpartisan consensus. Setting aside the Third Party Fetishists' platitudes about "polarization," Glenn uses the only empirical evidence there is in politics — congressional votes — to show how on everything from war, to civil liberties, to budget cuts, to financial…
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Bonnie Mann, Witness for the Prosecution
A graduate student at the University of Oregon wrote to me (and two faculty members there subsequently confirmed) that: 1. Although Oregon is "Strongly Recommended" in the so-called "Pluralist [sic] Guide" for its "Climate for Women"; 2. There is a faculty member suspected of being a serial sexual harasser, and it was graduate students who had to raise…
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What do philosophers earn from their writing?
A philosophy graduate student writes: How much do philosophers tend to earn through their publications? Until recently I had assumed that journal articles never yield any direct financial reward whereas popular books can be quite lucrative, with things like less popular books, contributed chapters, erudite newspaper articles and LRB reviews falling at various points somewhere in between,…
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UT’s Rodriguez to be the New Dean at Northwestern
My esteemed former colleague at the University of Texas School of Law, Daniel Rodriguez (administrative, public law, positive political theory) has accepted appointment as the new Dean at Northwestern University School of Law, effective January 1, 2012. As noted last week, Rodriguez was very successful in his last Deanship, at San Diego. This seems to me an…
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Let’s take a moment to remember why it’s wonderful to study and teach philosophy
MOVING TO FRONT FROM JULY 18 in view of all the positive feedback this thread has gotten; I hope some other readers will contribute. ======================== A student now thinking about PhD work writes: A lot of undergrads and grad students read your blog everyday. It's very insightful, but sometimes it can make the decision to…
I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…