October 2013
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Professor Simkovic is going to post a bit more this week…
…on his research on the economic value of a law degree. His earlier posts are here.
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Hiring faculty couples
A curious story in CHE about some cases where things went wrong (it's behind a paywall); an excerpt: [Sara Rachel] Chant and her husband, Zachary Ernst, were recruited [to Missouri] in 2006 from two faculty jobs at Florida State University. The philosophy department here wooed them with higher salaries, they say. The department also paid to transport…
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Best U.S. law faculties
I polled 300+ readers of my law blog–the results are mostly more sensible than U.S. News, though see the caveats noted.
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The 50 Best Law Faculties–the U.S. News “Effect” Isn’t What It Was (though it’s still there)
So with 310 votes in our last poll, the results seem to actually reflect some attempt to answer the different question: namely, which schools have the "best faculties" in terms of scholarly distinction, compared to last time when we just asked for reader opinions of the "best schools." (I should emphasize that beyond the top…
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The end of higher education as a public good in Britain
Shalom Lappin (King's College, London) shared this striking presentation. Thoughts from readers? Signed comments will be very strongly preferred.
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An “Untimely Review” of Nietzsche’s TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS
I have posted it here. This will be part of a wonderfully clever series that Topoi has run for a number of years, and which is explained here: We take a classic of philosophy and ask an outstanding scholar in the same field to review it as if it had just been published. This implies that the classical…
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Back into the “Blog Empire”…
…hence the new format. I was out at Pepperdine in lovely Malibu not long ago, and was chatting with the Blog Emperor himself who, among his other virtues, handles all the accounting and technical issues for his empire. (He also has better luck getting Wolters Kluwer to respond to inquiries!) Although the 'look' is new,…
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New England Law School trying to get rid of a third of its faculty?
A startling report from Blog Emperor Caron.
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Republican official in North Carolina admits the actual purpose of voter ID laws
Here. (Thanks to Bob Hockett for the pointer.)
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George Mason’s Todd Zywicki profiled
Interesting, and not wholly surprising. To be sure, Professor Zywicki is a committed ideologue, so I would expect him to take the positions he takes even if he weren't being paid to do so. (We last encountered Professor Zywicki last year during the fake scandal du jour about Professor Warren.)
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Republican Senator from Alabama gunning for the National Endowment for the Humanities
You would think this came from a Sinclair Lewis novel, but it's for real: Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama sent a letter this week to Carol M. Watson, the acting chairwoman of the NEH, in which he demanded the agency explain its peer-review process for funding grants that explore “very indefinite” questions. Sessions pointed to…
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Seton Hall conference on future of legal education
I'm sorry that I won't be there to see Professor Simkovic go head-to-head with one of his confused critics! (Mr. Harper is, admittedly, less confused than some of the others.) I hope there will be a video or audio available aftewards!
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How to dissuade students from pursuing graduate work in philosophy?
A junior philosopher writes: While the vast majority of my students are perfectly happy to study philosophy in college and never crack open another book , I periodically meet with someone interested in pursuing graduate school. While these range from academically-inclined and hard-working students to those who clearly lack the academic credentials to be admitted…
@ The Pacific: Good questions. My point isn’t that journals can’t adopt that stance, only that I won’t referee for…