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- New CBS Comedy Features Yes, More Lawyers
- Call for Panelists AALS Section on Law and Humanities
- Identifying Scientism
- Legal Interpretation
- Well, "L": The Green Bag Takes On the NYT
| New CBS Comedy Features Yes, More Lawyers Posted: 23 Feb 2011 04:39 PM PST Not enough TV lawyers in your life? Then by all means check out the new CBS comedy Mad Love, which airs Mondays at 8:30 (7:30 Central time). It stars Jason Biggs as Ben and Tyler Lapine as Leo, two young attorneys in the Big City (that's NY), haplessly looking for love. The sitcom's the work of Matt Tarses. Other stars: Sarah Chalke (of "Scrubs") as Ben's new found love Kate and Judy Greer (a frequent guest star on such Chuck Lorre comedies as "Two and a Half Men" and "The Big Bang Theory") as Connie, Kate's roommate, who spectacularly does not get along with Leo. We suspect we know how that relationship will turn out. So far, the show has been amusing and well-acted, but predictable, and the law takes a back seat to the developing romance between Ben and Kate. Episodes already aired available here.   |
| Call for Panelists AALS Section on Law and Humanities Posted: 23 Feb 2011 07:19 AM PST Call for Panelists AALS Section on Law and Humanities "Excavating and Integrating Law and Humanities in the Core Curriculum" 2012 AALS Annual Meeting January 4-8, 2012 Washington, D.C. The AALS Section on Law and Humanities will hold a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. with panelists who will share methods of teaching law and humanities perspectives in "core courses" such as property, torts, contracts, corporations, federal income tax, civil procedure, contracts, or criminal law, and others not traditionally understood to include these perspectives. Many agree that law and humanities perspectives are important vehicles for unpacking the substantive content of the core curriculum, as well as for building and honing key skills necessary for legal practice. Though many acknowledge that these perspectives are vitally important, there is less agreement as to how faculty can successfully implement these perspectives in their classrooms. This program will include a variety of panelists and will explore ways law and humanities perspectives can be used successfully to enrich law school teaching. To be considered as a panelist, please submit a statement of interest by Friday, March 25, 2011, including a description (2-3 paragraphs is sufficient) of the course that you teach and the methods that you use to excavate and integrate law and humanities perspectives that you would discuss as part of the panel. Please also submit an updated curriculum vitae. Panelists will be selected by April 11, 2011. Each selected panelist will be required to submit a 4-6 page draft in October 2011, describing their law and humanities teaching technique(s), for use by the moderator. The Section hopes to have these papers published as part of an online mini-symposium sponsored by the California Law Review. All panelists will be responsible for paying their annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses. Full-time faculty members of AALS member and fee-paid law schools are eligible to submit papers. |
Foreign, visiting (and not full-time on a different faculty) and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit.
Any inquiries about the Call for Panelists should be submitted to Professor Melissa Murray, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law via electronic mail at mmurray@law.berkeley.edu.
Any inquiries about the Call for Panelists should be submitted to Professor Melissa Murray, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law via electronic mail at mmurray@law.berkeley.edu.
Posted: 23 Feb 2011 07:17 AM PST
Susan Haack, University of Miami School of Law and Department of Philosophy, has published Six Signs of Scientism (Seis Signos De Cientismo) in Discusiones Filoficas, Ano 11 (No. 15) June 2010. Here is the abstract.
As the English word "scientism" is currently used, it is a trivial verbal truth that scientism-an inappropriately deferential attitude to science-should be avoided. But it is a substantial question when, and why, deference to the sciences in inappropriate or exaggerated. This paper tries to answer that question by articulating "six signs of scientism": the honorific use of "science," etc; using scientific trappings purely decoratively; preoccupation with demarcation; preoccupation with "scientific method"; looking to the sciences for answers beyond their scope; denying the legitimacy or worth of non-scientific (e.g. legal or literary) inquiry, or of writing poetry or making art.Download the article from SSRN at the link. NB: The text is in Spanish.
Posted: 23 Feb 2011 07:12 AM PST
George H. Taylor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published Legal Interpretation: The Window of the Text as Transparent, Opaque, or Translucent at 10 Nevada Law Review 700 (Summer 2010). Here is the abstract.
It is a common metaphor that the text is a window onto the world that it depicts. In legal interpretation, the metaphor has been developed in two ways – the legal text as transparent or opaque – and the Article proposes a third – the legal text as translucent. The claim that the legal text is transparent has been associated with more liberal methodological approaches. According to this view (often articulated by critics), the legal text does not markedly delimit meaning. Delimitation comes from the interpreters. By contrast, stress on the opacity of the legal text comes from those who give priority to the text rather than to any separable purpose lying behind the text. Frederick Schauer, for example, argues that rule-following requires treating a rule's generalization as entrenched and hence opaque. The Article's emphasis on the legal text as translucent builds on the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur and emphasizes the interrelation of text and context. To comprehend a legal text by reference to its context is to appreciate the light that the context brings to the text and renders the thickness and color of the text no longer opaque but translucent. The text is translucent to its context. The context is not outside the text but part of it. Attention to the text without regard for its external context may distort its meaning. The Article exemplifies this perspective by drawing on recent work by Laurence Tribe and Justice Breyer and applies it briefly to recent Supreme Court jurisprudence. The Article frames the attention to the legal text by referencing the debate over the text as transparent, opaque, or translucent in literary and philosophic interpretation.Download the article from SSRN at the link.
Well, "L": The Green Bag Takes On the NYT
Posted: 23 Feb 2011 07:10 AM PST
Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law; The Green Bag, is publishing Gray Lady Bowdler: The Continuing Saga of the Crimson Spot in the Green Bag Almanac and Reader 2012. Here is the abstract.
This is a short, true story about the Green Bag versus the New York Times, two periodicals doing their best according to their respective lights to serve their respective readerships. The story is told for the most part through recent email correspondence between, on one side, a variety of Times editors and, on the other side, one Green Bag editor. Reasonable minds might differ about the relative merits of the positions taken and the practices followed by the two periodicals and their spokespeople, but no reasonable person could deny the entertainment value of some of their exchanges. Those exchanges are reproduced in chronological order, starting on the next page. But first, a small dose of background...Download the article from SSRN at the link.
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