Brian Leiter
@brianleiter.bsky.social
I teach and write about general jurisprudence, legal and political realism, metaethics, free speech, religious toleration, academic freedom, Nietzsche, Marx and other topics at the University of Chicago. Homepage: https://brianleiter.net/
1/2 I look forward to when philosophers start using AI to write papers in aesthetics about works of art that it cannot see or hear and to which it is incapable of having an emotional or aesthetic response. (Cont’d)
Trump Administration announces a "hacking back" program, in which (if I read this correctly) companies can work with the government and can be legally authorized to hack back. Interesting CFAA issues, a few thoughts on that below. whitehouse.gov/presidential...
In my experience, it's peer group influence that politicizes college students, as you say. We in the 60's tended to be more radical than the professors, although some sympathized with us. I never read Marcuse, supposedly the evil influencer, until I had already been in radical politics for years
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Chicago Alumni and Fellows on the law teaching market, 2026-27
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 w…
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If Abdul El-Sayd is smart and articulate, Francisca Hong (who, fortunately, lost the primary for Governor in Wisconsin)…
…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 …
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Chicago Alumni and Fellows on the law teaching market, 2026-27
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 w…
leiterreports.com
leiterreports.com/2026/08/12/i...
If Abdul El-Sayd is smart and articulate, Francisca Hong (who, fortunately, lost the primary for Governor in Wisconsin)…
…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 …
leiterreports.com
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SCOTUS clerkship placement, 1991 through 2005 (from 1/16/2006)
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…
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Fascinating piece by Tyler Harper on the “diversity” madness at Bates College…
…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 th…
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SCOTUS clerkship placement, 1991 through 2005 (from 1/16/2006)
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…
leiterreports.com
leiterreports.com/2026/08/11/f...
Fascinating piece by Tyler Harper on the “diversity” madness at Bates College…
…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 th…
leiterreports.com
FINALLY - news from Indiana I can support and be proud of!
People really hate this company.
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University of Minnesota pays $250,000 settlement after wrongfully rescinding job offer to Holocaust scholar who called Israeli retaliation in Gaza “genocide”
They would have had to pay more except the scholar does have a tenured job elsewhere. (Thanks to Phil Bold for the pointer.)
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