Navel-Gazing
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I’m moving from Twitter/X to Bluesky
If you use X or similar social media to follow the blog, please follow me there. Thank you. ADDENDUM: Here's why you should move too: Musk is manipulating the algorithms on his platform in service of Trump and the Republicans. ANOTHER: Join the exodus to Bluesky: The platform formerly regarded [by ignoramuses-ed.] as a utopian…
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Books
Forgive the navel-gazing here, but perhaps some readers will be interested in some of the three books of mine that have appeared this year. (1) Marx, co-authored with Jaime Edwards, has just appeared. Here's what the political philosopher Allen Buchanan (emeritus, Duke University; Laureate Professor, University of Arizona; author of Marx and Justice: The Radical…
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Entering summer blogging schedule
It's grading crunch time here at the University of Chicago (we're on a quarter system), and as in prior years, I'll be posting less going forward, until August, when some more regular posting will resume. I'll still update the laterals list, post memorials of well-known figures in the legal academy as they arise, and perhaps…
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Most “influential” people in American legal education?
It's not for me to say; a lot of Deans and administrators, plus some guys with blogs. The "top twenty": 1. Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, Berkeley) 2. Kellye Testy (President & CEO, LSAC) 3. Mark Alexander (Dean, Villanova; 2023 AALS President) 4. Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine, and "Blog Emperor"!) 5. Bobby Ahdieh (Dean, Texas A&M) 6. …
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Welcoming the JD Class of 2026 and LLM Class of 2024 to Chicago
My remarks from the welcome dinner on September 21, including some amusing ancedotes about Karl Llewellyn, and discussion of legal reasoning and ordinary reasoning, and the Socratic method, among other topics. Response from students was gratifying ("awesome," "inspiring")!
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Probably not much new here until the New Year
I wish everyone a pleasant holiday break!
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“Feedburner” is defunct
For those who enjoy receiving blog posts delivered to your email account each day, I'm sorry to report that the service known as Feedburner has been discontinued by Google. As an alternative, you can use an RSS reader, and still subscribe to this blog via Feedly, NewsBlur, or Inoreader.
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Summer blogging
I'll be posting less regularly until early August. Professor Sisk and colleagues at St. Thomas are working on a new scholarly impact study, and I will make time for thost results as they become available.
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Seven Chicago alums clerk on SCOTUS for second year in a row
I hope readers will indulge my sharing some local good news.
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July blogging hiatus
I'm taking a break from the blog in July in order to make progress on a book and deal with some other matters. If there's something absolutely time-sensitive, I may put it up, but otherwise please don't send news items until very late July. Thanks, as always, for reading.
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“Capitalism, Social Democracy and Socialism: Which is Right for America?”
In what is probably my last trip for a good while (having so far cancelled events in Canada, England, and Ireland,with no doubt more to come), I'll be driving up to Madison today for a debate/discussion with the economist Bryan Caplan (George Mason). So probably not much new until Friday. Since "social distancing" is the…
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Blog highlights from 2019, 4th quarter: October, November, December
October Society for Empirical Legal Studies objects to use of HeinOnLine citation data to measure "scholarly impact" November The growing importance of "privacy law" Another academic administrator (a law professor, no less) who doesn't understand her job December Jonathan Turley (George Washington) is not the "second most-cited law professor in the country" Wealthy Penn Law alumnus…
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Blog highlights from 2019, 2nd quarter: April, May, June
April A case of bad editorial practice at a journal "Please reject me! An Open Letter to the Harvard Law Review" (from Mark Lemley) May ABA's legal education council adopts stricter bar passage standards for law schools Top Ten Corporate & Securities Articles for 2018 June 2019 Entry-Level Hiring Report, the results Daughter of Yale…
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Blog highlights from 2019, first quarter: January, February, March
January SEALS decides to screw over academic job seekers (the good news is the effort was dead on arrival) Links to all the "Most Cited" faculty lists for 2013-2017 February U.S. News to start "scholarly impact" rankings How to compare the GRE and the LSAT March Attention Bob Morse: this is quite important in using…
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My personal homepage has been updated…
…for anyone who cares. It includes information on this year's schedule of talks (mostly philosophy this year), as well as the four quotes that explain all my work (from Nietzsche, Quine, Marx, and H.L.A. Hart), plus other stuff. Hope to see some readers at some of my talks this year. (A couple more talks will…
Andrei Rodin is circulating a letter demanding the liberation of Svetlana Mesyats: https://philomatica.org/2026/05/open-letter-in-support-of-svetlana-messiats/. The prosecution has demanded a sentence of…