…which is down slightly from last year. There were about the same number of jobs advertised in the first placement bulletin as last year.
For amusement, I looked at the CVs of the 16 candidates who listed “Jurisprudence” as one of their preferred subjects. Of these, I would say two were qualified to teach legal philosophy, and four might be. It’s a shame that so many candidates use “Jurisprudence” so loosely. There is an actual body of knowledge that jurisprudence candidates need to have, and many of these folks clearly do not have it.




I first met David as an undergraduate at Oxford. I had stepped into a graduate seminar and haltingly asked my…