Navel-Gazing
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NALP data: When there are fewer law school graduates, there are fewer law school graduates with jobs (Michael Simkovic)
NALP entry level starting salaries and employment don't predict much of anything about what will happen three to four years from now when those currently contemplating going to law school will, if they choose to attend, graduate into a quite possibly very different economy. Nor is NALP data directionally very different from overall economic data…
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New personal homepage
I've got a new personal homepage, courtesy of graphic designer Patrick Hennessey. If you like his work for academic homepages (see also Monique Wonderly's page, which he also designed), consider hiring him: more information, including contact information here.
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I answer “Ten Questions”…
…at Law360.com.
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Some publications and working papers this year
I appreciate the many blog readers who also read my scholarly writing–it has been one of the best things about the blog for years that it has been a vehicle for sharing my work with other faculty and students across many fields. In that spirit, here are publications–or working drafts–that I made available this year:…
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Not much new until next week…
…travel and conferences on the horizon!
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Lighter blogging during the summer, plus an update on “most cited” lists
I'll be doing less blogging during the summer, but will have occasional updates–things will pick up again in August. I'll also have some additions to the "most cited" lists during the summer. To answer a question that comes up a fair bit regarding highly cited faculty who work in different areas of law: based on…
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“What is it like to be a philosopher?”
This site is run by a young philosopher, Clifford Sosis, who kindly interviewed me. Although it ends up focusing a good bit on academic philosophy (and some of its professional pathologies!), it may still interest some readers.
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I’ve joined Aeon Ideas…
…here, and have a couple of viewpoints up.
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“Why Tolerate Religion?” reviewed in the Philosophical Review
The review is by philosopher Samuel Rickless (UC San Diego); Philosophical Review is the leading philosophy journal in English. Professor Rickless writes that Why Tolerate Religion?, is short, an enjoyable read, accessible to the generally educated public but alive to a number of sophisticated philosophical ideas and distinctions, its prose crisp and straightforward, its attitude…
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“The Truth is Terrible”
This was the annual Epes Humanities Lecture at Davidson College, which some readers here might perhaps enjoy. (Some law colleagues told me they did enjoy it, so I'm posting it here as well.)
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Back into the “Blog Empire”…
…hence the new format. I was out at Pepperdine in lovely Malibu not long ago, and was chatting with the Blog Emperor himself who, among his other virtues, handles all the accounting and technical issues for his empire. (He also has better luck getting Wolters Kluwer to respond to inquiries!) Although the 'look' is new,…
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“Why Tolerate Religion?” in DC Tomorrow
I look forward to meeting a number of longtime readers there.
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“Why Tolerate Religion?” in the Harvard Law Review (March 2013)
A nice short notice: "Why Tolerate Religion? is a readable book that exposes several tenuous assumptions underlying the predominant justifications for religious exemptions. At the same time, it provides a fresh and intuitive framework for analyzing conscience-based objections to facially neutral laws that should appeal to legal practitioners, jurists, and philosophers alike."
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…