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JD/PhD Programs in Philosophy (in the US): A Comment

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Best Articles in Legal Philosophy That Appeared in 2007?

So, as I noted on my philosophy blog, The Philosopher's Annual is coming back to life, and now I've been asked to serve as a Nominating Editor.  I would be curious to hear from readers whether there were any philosophy of law articles that appeared in 2007 that they thought were really first-rate?  I think there might be one or two in contention, but I may also have missed good pieces.  All comments on this thread must be signed.  Post only once; as usual, comments may take awhile to appear.  Thanks for your assistance.

Jules Coleman (Yale) on Being a Philosopher in a Law School

Another excerpt from Legal Philosophy:  5 Questions, this time from the interview with Jules Coleman:

I have had the great good fortune of being a professor at the Yale Law School for over twenty years now, but there are two things about my experience at Yale that I have not been nearly so fond of.  First, I cannot abide the arrogance and unjustified self-confidence that too many of my colleagues have:  a disease that has spread among law faculties everywhere in the United States.  It seems to me that law professors confuse monetary reward with academic achievement.  How sad--and frankly, frustrating.  The arrogance and self-confidence is too often matched only by pretense.

My suspicion is that this phenomenon is a bit more sui generis to Yale than Jules allows, but I fully empathize with his frustration.