After being demoted to the 6th best law school in the country last year by USNEWS.COM, things seem to be changing! Jokes aside, Mr. West is very talented, but what's remarkable is that YLS hired him: a smart, articulate lawyer who knows a ton of law, and (I am told) is "conservative" (whatever that means). Historically, YLS rookie hires of their own have not always worked out that well (Akhil Amar is one famous exception), but I imagine this will be another exception. What explains it? Dean Heather Gerken wants to be President of Yale? Or leave behind some of the embarrassments of recent years? In any case congratulations to Mr. West and to Yale!
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog
News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world’s most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.
If you were the head recruiter for a professional basketball team, would you require height and weight measurements for prospective…
I wonder if people are familiar with Fred Schauer’s essay on Kelsen and Fuller. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607099
If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…
To a large degree, Kuhn’s Structure is an attempt to deliver on the descriptive task of epistemology as Reichenbach conceived…
I concur to a certain extent. I also scored very low on the writing section. Back then, GRE was required…
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
We haven’t discussed this in our department (lower ranked PGR but tend to get highly competitive/very large applicant pool) but…