April 2013
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Academic freedom (and due process) under threat at Brooklyn Law School?
Brooklyn Law School is an independent law school in New York, a school of long-standing and good reputation, with no connection to either Brooklyn College or the City University of New York. Many of its faculty have national reputations for their scholarship, and its graduates have enjoyed successful careers in both private practice and in…
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On the need to reform the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act
Two law professors have sensible observations.
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Recent Passings: George Bunn and John Sutton Jr.
In recent days, two significant senior colleagues have passed away. George Bunn, former law dean at the University of Wisconsin, died last Sunday. He was 87. In addition to his 17 years on the faculty at Wisconsin, which included leading the school from 1972-75, he was the first general counsel for the U.S. Arms Control…
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Philosophers at SUNY-Geneseo Discuss “Sexual Assault”
IHE has a story, but a much more illuminating account is here. The Geneseo students who started a petition calling for the Administration to denounce the main speaker, Prof. Everett, should apologize; it is never appropriate for a university to express an official criticism of faculty speech (an issue we have encountered before).
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Holden Caulfield meets Fred Dretske
Here. (Thanks to Aleja Santos for the pointer.)
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Four Philosophers Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
They are: David Chalmers (ANU/NYU); Alan Code (Stanford); Rae Langton (MIT, moving to Cambridge); and Michael Smith (Princeton).
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Six law faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
They are: T. Alexander Aleinikoff (Georgetown; currently on leave at the U.N. High Commission for Refugees); Tom Ginsburg (Chicago); Christine Jolls (Yale); Dan Kahan (Yale); John Manning (Harvard), and Pamela Samuelson (Berkeley). ADDENDUM: As we have had occasion to note before, there are sometimes surprising errors of omission in who is and is not elected…
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Fish with a transparent head filmed
This is a propos nothing, but it's still quite striking!
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Adjuncts now at risk due to new healthcare law’s insurance requirement?
A philosopher writes: I wonder if the issue addressed in this Chronicle article might merit discussion on your blog. I'm the assistant chair of a philosophy department at a very poorly funded public commuter school that has been using adjuncts as de facto full-time faculty for years now. Our administration has just told us that we…
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Kerr & Lessig on the Need to Reform CFAA
Read this and then send it to your elected representatives!
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Dean Search List Updated
I've posted an update of my annual law school dean search list here. There isn't any new news, for readers who watch these matters regularly, but I've compiled all the hires – and the new openings – for those who don't.
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Good developments at Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
500 new faculty to be hired, a 50% increase in spending for the humanities and social sciences.
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Information useful for advising students (esp. from underrepresented groups) about advantages of graduate study in philosophy and careers people pursue thereafter?
MOVING TO FRONT FROM APRIL 20, TO ENCOURAGE MORE RESPONSES A colleague elsewhere writes: Are you aware of resources I might consult that would give me information about the various kinds of careers people doing graduate (MA or PhD) study in philosophy enter? Or other materials that might be useful in counseling students from underrepresented…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…