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Their letter to University leadership (earlier coverage): Dear President Cudd, Provost Chabon, Dean Rosenstiel, Associate Dean Carlson, and Associate Dean Oslund, We, the faculty of the Department of ...

In addition to the separate posts announcing (generally tenured) faculty moves, I will keep a running list of all lateral moves (and retirements and deaths) not reflected in the faculty lists for the ...

The penulimate version on SSRN, for a volume that OUP will publish on the legal philosophy of Leslie Green. The abstract: Leslie Green raised an important challenge to my reconstruction of the ...

Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for PhD students in philosophy in Canada. The situation in the U.S., where many (but certainly not all) of the top programs are ...

Law professor Steven Vladeck explains the constitutional and legal issues; a few excerpts: In essence, the Trump administration is claiming the unilateral power to at least temporarily “impound” tens ...

As of this writing, the United States Health and Human Services is still under a communications embargo. Agencies such as the CDC, NIH, FDA and 10 others remain unable to communicate to the ...

The effect — and I believe purpose — of these pardons is to encourage vigilantes and militias loyal to the president, but unaccountable to the government. Illiberal democracies and outright ...

Philosopher Colin Marshall writes This year, the Central APA will be online, following the 2+1 Campaign in 2021-22. Under the 2+1 model, one of the three divisional APA meetings each year will be ...

"making political comments" in class. There's not much detail here. We know the Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has open contempt for the First Amendment and academic freedom, but we also don't know ...

Harvard Medical School canceled a planned Jan. 21 lecture on wartime healthcare and a subsequent panel with patients from Gaza receiving care in Boston in response to objections that students would ...