June 2021
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Egalitarianism, the mongoose way
Parents don't know which offspring are theirs. (Thanks to Joshua Selby for the pointer.)
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Monday is the last day for submitting comments regarding the proposed changes to the ABA standards regarding diversity and curriculum
Many interesting comments have already been submitted, some echoing concerns raised here. The lengthy analysis by current or emeritus "Sterling Professors" at Yale Law School may be of particular interest. ("Sterling Professor" is the most distinguished professorial rank at Yale, and includes such well-known scholars as Bruce Ackerman, Owen Fiss, John Langbein, Roberta Romano, and…
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Philosopher Marc Lange’s (North Carolina) letter to the UNC Board of Trustees…
…regarding their failure to approve a recommendation of tenure. He's of course right about the damage this has and will do.
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“Naturalism in Legal Philosophy,” updated again
The latest updated version by Max Etchemendy and myself is now available at SEP.
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Blast from the past: In defense of English Departments!
Back in 2014, including a discussion.
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Australasian programs in the PGR
Several students have written regarding possible "updates" for Australasian progarms in the 2017 PGR; I apologize that I haven't put together an update similar to others I've done for other regions (with the generous help of Mitchell Barrington). The top five in 2017 were ANU and Sydney at 1 and 2, and then a drop-off…
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A look at this year’s lateral moves by race and gender
Professor Orin Kerr (Berkeley) looked at the list of laterals this year and posted his findings on Twitter: There were 40 men on the laterals list, of whom 21 were "people of color"; there were 53 women on the laterals list, of whom 23 were "people of color." Put differently: there were 49 white laterals…
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“Two Pessimisms in Mill”
I commend this important paper in Utilitas by one of our PhD students, Joshua Fox, who is defending his splendid dissertation on pessimism in Mill, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche next month. The paper, which draws on dissertation material, sheds fascinating and new light on an aspects of Mill's ethics that I've not seen addressed before. (A…
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Anti-“Anti-Racism”
Some interesting material in this article; an excerpt: Nesrine Malik, a columnist for the Guardian, calls much of the anti-racist movement “a kind of group narcissism … that promotes this notion that identity politics is about easing the passage of people of color in elite spaces. … It also promotes a view that reform is via…
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Arts, humanities and AI ethics
Philosopher John Tasioulas (Oxford) comments.
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In Memoriam: Jack Weinstein (1921-2021)
A longtime member of the Columbia Law School faculty and a district court judge in New York, he was also well-known for his scholarship on evidence, civil procedure and mass torts. The Columbia memorial notice is here.
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Will Ethel Rosenberg finally be exonerated?
An interesting essay about a new book about a horrible miscarriage of justice. ("Miscarriage of justice" may be too tepid a description, given the involvement of the criminal Roy Cohn.)
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“Moral Accounting” and good governance
Robert J. Bloomfield–an accounting professor at Cornell, who has written a number of papers tying accounting to philosophical issues, including limits to speech, and pragmatics of language–is seeking feedback from philosophers about his current project on "moral accounting" and governance. Professor Bloomfield discusses the philosophical issues here, and some practical implications here. These blog posts…
I don’t think it’s that the philosophical debates will become irrelevant in your example, so much that your example demonstrates…