Leiter Reports

Courtesy of Clifford Sosis, as always. A really interesting trajectory into philosophy, I encourage folks to read this one. (What she says about UT Austin, although after my time, does ring true. I hope it’s better now.)

….arrested on child sex abuse charges. Dr. Freud strikes again! (Thanks to David Gordon for the pointer.)

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 […]

I’ve remarked on this for years (and more systematically), and although Habermas has a lot of groupies and loyalists, occasionally others do remark on this as well. This rather uneven piece by the philosopher Lorna Finlayson is the latest example. (You have to skip the first part of the essay to get to the interesting […]

I’m very sorry to have to report the sudden death yesterday of my esteemed colleague Randy Picker, who was well-known for his work on antitrust, bankruptcy, and intellectual property, among other topics. A triple Chicago grad (B.A., M.A. in economics, J.D.), he clerked for Richard Posner, and joined the Chicago faculty in 1989 after practicing […]

Readers will no doubt have heard this news already, but here is one account. No cause of death is given, although one suspects suicide of course given the public humiliation and vilification he suffered. A tragic story. (Earlier coverage here.) (Thanks to David Zimmerman for calling this to my attention.)

MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUG 12–UPDATED This post is strictly for schools that expect to do hiring this year. In order to protect the privacy of our candidates, please e-mail me to get a copy of the narrative profiles of our candidates who are on the entry-level market this year and participating in the FAR. […]

…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 […]

This post is strictly for schools that expect to do hiring this year. In order to protect the privacy of our candidates, please e-mail me to get a copy of the narrative profiles of our candidates who are on the entry-level market this year and participating in the FAR. We have an excellent group of […]

The last thread garnered 22 submissions, so I thought with fall approaching, it would make sense to open a new thread. The rules, as before: In light of the growing number of these volumes, I am going to run a thread periodically in which I invite authors or readers to share links to philosophical works […]

…is not so much–she comes across as more like a flaky teenager. Someone who thinks the police “promote white supremacy” is not a serious person of the left. And her Twitter blather about Thanksgiving et al. is just embarrassing. Fortunately, the Milwaukee County Executive, David Crowley, prevailed (despite polls showing Hong with a big lead). […]

Someone should really do this again, since U.S. News reputational surveys are done so poorly. The Survey and the MethodBetween March 3 and March 21, 2003, more than 150 leading legal scholars from around the nation completed the most thorough evaluation of American law faculty quality ever undertaken.  Scholars were invited to participate in the […]

He is obviously smart and articulate, and it serves him well given the “shit” being thrown at him. And here’s a good ad that’s running: I’m worried, to be sure, how anti-Muslim and anti-Arab prejudice will affect the vote, but he seems like a skillful politician, so let’s hope he can pull it off.

A propos this, here is an old study of placement in SCOTUS clerkships for 15 terms. Because of the small number of clerks chosen in a given year; because clerks are only chosen from the very top of any law school’s class; because current clerks participate in the process of selecting new clerks; and because […]

…where he used to teach, before joining The Atlantic. Harper is Black and also a socialist. I first encountered him on Twitter, where he was a sharp critic from the left of the excesses of the Wokerati. This new piece is beautifully written and both horrifying and laugh-out-loud funny at points. Some excerpts (but there […]

They would have had to pay more except the scholar does have a tenured job elsewhere. (Thanks to Phil Bold for the pointer.)

I will post links to the blog there, so if you followed me on Twitter, please follow me on Bluesky (if you are on Bluesky). I only returned to Twitter last year when the prior blog service provider shut down, and I moved to WordPress, and wanted to popularize the new location. That effort has […]