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This study identifies the law school alma mater (J.D. only) of tenure-stream academic faculty at 43 leading law faculties who graduated since 1995. Faculty lists are current for 2010-11. “Leading” law faculties were defined as those that are either in the top 35 in the academic reputation surveys conducted by U.S....
For those who didn’t have time to read Appiah’s report, this is a balanced overview and assessment. An excerpt: The most trenchant of the report’s methodological critiques is on “identity as a basis for criticism.” Appiah prosecutes an attack on a deformed version of standpoint epistemology by which, in the words of...
This upcoming roundtable at the UK chapter of the IVR (the international association for legal philosophy), organized by Daniel Murata (Surrey), will be online, for those who might be interested:
The old Leiter Law Rankings site is going offline August 20, so readers who want any of the material there should copy it before then. I am going to post here some of the data that strike me as particularly useful, starting with data on placement in law teaching. =========== This study is based on the educational...
JME retraction notice is here: https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2026/07/07/jme-2025-111085ret. And here is the Bioethics article that exposed the fraud: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bioe.70099. Johann Go, who flagged this for me, observes that, “The author submitted using a French Yahoo email...
…which does seem far more plausible than the candidate successor. (Regarding the Nietzsche quote which makes an amusing appearance near the end of Byrne’s essay: Nietzsche is obviously thinking of, among others, Kant, who finally confesses that the purpose of the critique of pure reason is to make room for faith.)
Roberto Veneziano, a former co-editor of the journal (which publishes a lot of philosophically-minded economics), writes: On Saturday, the 4th of July all four co-editors of the Review of Social Economy (RoSE) wrote to the Association for Social Economics (ASE) which owns the journal and announced their decision to...
They are: Beatrice Longuenesse (emerita, NYU); Richard Pettigrew (Bristol, moving to Oxford); Nicholas Shea (Institute of Phil, Univeristy of London); and James Warren (Cambridge).
…at The Philosopher’s Magazine. (A relevant earlier post on this blog here.) I call particular attention to these remarks near the end of Professor Boghossian’s essay: According to the standard diagnosis, the humanities have been captured by the ideological left leading to an unacceptable viewpoint homogeneity that...
…via Professor Lawsky’s spreadsheet at Prawfs.
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