January 2013
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Foreign “undergraduate pedigree” and applications to PhD programs
A reader writes: I'm an undergraduate student of philosophy from Brazil and I would like to ask you some questions if you don't mind. I know the issue I'm going to raise has been discussed at other places, but I really don't know how to proceed in my case. My concern is with to what…
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The legal historian Mark Weiner…
…has both a blog and a new book. (He's also, I should note, a friend and former student, but he is always a pleasure to read, so I'm sure many readers will enjoy his site.)
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Teaching philosophy in prison
Interesting account from Lisa Guenther (Vanderbilt).
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Petition in support of Iranian philosophy PhD student Abbas Khosravi Farsani
MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 21 The petition is here, and I would urge all readers to sign given the unjust and politically motivated treatment to which he has been subjected. It was prepared by philosophers Alan Hajek (ANU) and Jeff Jordan (Delaware). When you sign, put your institutional affiliation in the comment section. UPDATE: …
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McConnaughay to Peking U School of Transnational Law
Philip J. McConnaughay, dean of Penn State Dickinson School of Law, will become the next dean of Peking University’s School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China. Jeffrey Lehman is the school's current chancellor and founding dean.
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“Rights and Realities in Latin America”
Argentinian philosopher Roberto Gargarella comments in the Boston Review.
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Nature’s Acres
No wonder their beef is so good!
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States that slashed higher education spending since the recession
Some sobering charts here. (Thanks to Blake Taylor for the pointer.)
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Biologist Orr on Nagel in the NYREOB
Several readers sent this piece, which makes many of the same critical points from earlier reviews. (Clarification: NYREOB is the acronym for New York Review of Each Other's Books which, once upon a time, was actually worth reading regularly.) UPDATE: There's an even more critical review by Peter Godfrey-Smith (CUNY Grad Center) in the current…
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ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education…
…is soliciting comments. You can read the comments received so far here. I haven't read them all, but of those I did read, the comments from Frank Wu, Dean at Hastings, sounds the right themes, while the one from Scott Fruehwald, formerly a legal writing instructor at Hofstra, is notable for its infatuation with gimmicky…
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R.P. Wolff on H.L. Gates
Rather interesting observations.
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Greater diversity in institutions offering legal education…
…a subject we've touched on before is, it seems to me, compatible with tenure and academic freedom, contrary to Stephen Diamond (Santa Clara). I think he is also mistaken in his characterization of Brian Tamanaha's critique–Tamanaha is correct, in my view, to view access to education, including legal education, as an issue of social justice,…
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“Law porn”
It's now a scholarly topic!
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“Why Tolerate Religion” on the radio in Chicago
Here (hit "click play" at the center top if you'd like to listen).
Alexy’s non-positivist theory represented an effort to address the rationality of law without resorting to metaphysical conceptions of law. Drawing…