September 2021
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Samuel Moyn (Yale) vs. defenders of the late Michael Ratner (including Katherine Franke [Columbia])
Here. I have found Moyn's work quite interesting, but the criticisms of Ratner do seem unfair.
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“The Need for Socially Distanced Citizens”
Philosopher Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt) comments.
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Will the University of Hong Kong survive as one of Asia’s leading universities?
I'm skeptical, given the incursions of the authoritarian government in Beijing. Universities in Taiwain and Singapore (and maybe also New Zealand and Australia) may be the beneficiaries if a real exodus begins.
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More “most-cited’ lists coming over the next month or so
Those lists will include the most-cited faculty writing in evidence, health law, election law, critical theories of law, torts and insurance law, civil procedure, family law, legal ethics/legal profession, antitrust, and perhaps some others, but at least these. Thanks for your interest and patience.
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Richard Painter (Minnesota) now attacking Sarah Braasch, a vulnerable and traumatized young woman, and only because I had defended her
Apologies to readers bored with this malevolent buffoon, but Richard Painter's latest stunt is even more despicable than trying to smear some of my colleagues as racists based on nothing. It, at least, presents an opportunity to air the actual facts about the target of Richard's harassment, Sarah Braasch (a lawyer who is now a…
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“Three myths” about the awful Viktor Orban in Hungary
This is instructive.
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Classical violinist comes to the defense of Hendrix
God bless him.
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New editors for the Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism
Jonathan Gilmore and Sandra Shapshay, both at CUNY.
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Blast from the past: the “preeminent world publisher of academic philosophy”?
A discussion back in 2008–and it's still not Cambridge University Press, although maybe once it was.
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Are COVID hospitalization numbers informative?
This is interesting; an excerpt: The authors of the paper out this week took a different tack to answer a similar question, this time for adults. Instead of meticulously looking at why a few hundred patients were admitted to a pair of hospitals, they analyzed the electronic records for nearly 50,000 COVID hospital admissions at…
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Political orientation, science denial, and COVID vaccinations
Philosopher Adrian Bardon (Wake Forest) comments.
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Top 15 Law Schools by “Per Capita” Placement of Graduates as Supreme Court (SCOTUS) clerks in the last five years
This covers the October terms 2017 through 2021. Only schools with at least two clerks placed during this time period are listed. The "per capita" rate is the total number of clerks divided by the typical size of a graduating class in recent years, based on ABA data (and rounded to the nearest 25). Below…
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Provost announces new “Faculty Success Initiative”
This is very funny; an excerpt: The survey results show a faculty that is dedicated and happy to have employment at this university. The data is pretty conclusive: 46 percent of you are not actively looking for work, 30 percent of you feel confident your academic unit will survive the upcoming budget cuts, and 24…
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Third World War, “Ascension Day,” 1971
Short-lived British proto-punk band formed in 1970, this is probably the best number from their debut album:
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Victory for academic freedom at the University of Toronto (UPDATED)
After an offer on the law faculty was blocked as a result of outside political interference, the University of Toronto was censured by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). CAUT has now "paused" the censure, since the University has now offered the position to the candidate previously blocked. UPDATE: The censure is only "paused"…
I just published in the new PPA and can say it was one of the most difficult, rigorous R&R’s of…