Xi Zhang

some lovely photos taken by myself from autumn to winter this semester in the vicinity of NYU Law

Wish all of my mentors, colleagues, and other academic friends at NYU and elsewhere in the world a restful winter break and a joyful holiday season! Wish you and your families all the best in 2025! Wish myself a successful doctoral defense and a desirable postdoc job next year!

Top 9 Programs in Philosophy of Law, 2024-25
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2024/11...

Felipe Jiménez, Thanks, but No Thanks, JOTWELL (November 26, 2024) (reviewing Mathieu Carpentier, Against “Legal Facts", available at SSRN (Apr. 11, 2024)), juris.jotwell.com/thanks-but-n....

YouTube video by Oxford Law Faculty Demystifying Oxford: Academic Hiring at the Faculty of Law, March 2, 2021

"Demystifying Oxford: Academic Hiring at the Faculty of Law, March 2, 2021" U.S. law schools should do this, too. It wouldn't be all that difficult to put together a discussion, and it could be informative for potential candidates. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Co...

I have just finished my last JSD Forum yesterday. Five and a half years' journey has come towards the very last episode. For the coming half year or so, I will be single-mindedly dedicated to the wrapping up & rerewriting & finalizing my dissertation for the preparation of my defense. Thank you all!

Juris North is pleased to announce the speakers for its third and final roundtable event on Contemporary anti/non-positivist legal theory, to be held on Wednesday 13th December: 13h30: Welcome and Keynote: Professor Kenneth Ehrenberg (Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy) “Legal Anti-Positivists cannot say Law is an institution” Respondent: Dr Anna Chronopoulou (Juris North, University of Westminster) 14h30: Refreshment break 15h00: Presentations: Javier Gallego Saade (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; University of Oxford) “What should legal anti-positivists believe?” Dr Hafstein Dan Kristjánsson (Reykjavík University) “A Matter of Morality? Legal Interpretivism and its Legal Method Problem” Yago da Costa Mina (Universidade de São Paolo) “The New Separability Thesis” 15h45: Roundtable discussion 16h30: End

Our second Juris North event yesterday was a huge success - but we now look forward to the great lineup of speakers at at our third and final roundtable for this semester, hosted at Newcastle Law School.

Join us in-person or online by booking here:

www.tickettailor.com/events/newca...

On my way to Boston

Looking forward to my (perhaps last) JSD Forum on "The Asymmetries in Associative Obligation" at NYU School of Law tomorrow!

Tort Law Workshop This Tort Law Workshop, organized by the ELTRG, will welcome Dr. Joanna Lanngille from the University of Western Ontario, who will be presenting her paper 'Tort Law's Authority,' and PhD candidate Y...

We have TWO legal theory events next week: first, a workshop on Private Law Theory in Old College on Thursday (at 2-5pm) www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/... and then our annual 'Disputatio' on Friday (10-5pm) with Glasgow Legal Theory and Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy (in Glasgow).

Paolo Sandro, "The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law" (Bloomsb... Listen to this episode from New Books in Law on Spotify. This book is a tour de force. In The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law (Bloomsbury, 2022), Dr Paolo Sa...

Don't miss this podcast on @paolosandro.bsky.social's wonderful book 'The Making of Constitutional Democracy'. Paolo is a former Convenor of our student-run Legal Theory Research Group, and the book is based on his PhD thesis written here at Edinburgh Law School open.spotify.com/episode/0qWf...

Are you a recent graduate of a law or PhD program interested in an academic career and working on the intersections of law, technology and society? Apply to join the ISP as a resident fellow!

law.yale.edu/isp/join-us

The collapse of Hong Kong universities, not for financial but political reasons

leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2023/10...

Reflections of a Moral Realist: On Thomas Nagel’s “Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress” Kieran Setiya reviews Thomas Nagel’s “Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress.”...

I wrote about Tom Nagel’s moral philosophy for the LA Review of Books
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reflections-of-a-moral-realist-on-thomas-nagels-moral-feelings-moral-reality-and-moral-progress/

🚨 Reminder 🚨

It's not too late to send in an abstract for our spring conference on "Propaganda and Emerging Technologies"!

Deadline: October 30 if you need a US visa, November 10 otherwise

Details: law.yale.edu/isp/initiati...

Journal of Political Philosophy Update (guest post) The following is an update on the Journal of Political Philosophy, whose advisory board resigned following a decision by the journal’s publisher, Wiley, to fire its editor, Robert Goodin. The updat...

Is this the end of the Journal of Political Philosophy?

Fellow law profs: Professor Bridget Crawford has broadened her Law Professor Twitter Census to include other social media sites. You can update (or add) your information here:

A lovely visit to YLS

Video: Gallagher Nominates Bridgeman for Nobel Peace Prize

The courageous man withstands and fears those things which it is necessary [to fear and withstand] and on account of the right reason, and how and when it is necessary [to fear or withstand] them, and likewise in the case of being bold. - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (1116b17-19)