Ruth Chang (ethics), Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, has accepted appointment as Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford on the law faculty, beginning in January 2019. Although Chang has a law degree, it is a surprising appointment given that she does not work in jurisprudence, unlike the three prior Chair holders going back to the 1950s.
If anything, this exchange illustrates the problem: judgments are being made on stylistic impressions (“this sounds like AI”) rather than…



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