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I had the privilege of learning of David and his work very recently. Still, this has been my most impressionable…
I did not have any personal acquaintance with David Charles, but through his writings he did more than anyone else…
When, as a nervous graduate student, I found my way into a small conference of senior scholars, David found out…
Very sad news. I had the opportunity to get to know David during a series of workshops on the Parva…
I will always hold onto this image of David: sitting cross-legged in his study at Oriel College, Oxford, with a…
His work on Aristotle’s teleology reshaped how a generation of graduate students read the Physics, and he was unusually generous…
These are non-clinical/non-LRW appointments that will take effect in summer or fall 2027 (except where noted); (new additions will be in bold.) Last year’s list is here.
*Yonathan Arbel (commercial law, consumer law, law & economics, AI & law) from the University of Alabama to the University of Miami.
*Ryan Scoville (foreign relations law, international law) from Marquette University to the University of San Diego (effective January 2027).
I first met David as an undergraduate at Oxford. I had stepped into a graduate seminar and haltingly asked my…