16 Dec Less on the Size of International-Law Faculties
16.12.10
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Having received a number of emails complaining about how I counted the size of various faculties, I have decided to remove both posts. As I made clear in the original post, my count was not designed to be scientific and excluded — rightly or wrongly — a number of categories of scholars that some might believe should have been included. The posts were also not designed to prove which faculties were better than others. As I also noted in the original post, the size of an international-law faculty says very little about its quality.
You can not win in doing these things. You however have been provocative and the kind of reaction that you are getting suggests we all should lighten up a bit at the end of the year and have a bit of holiday cheer – hoping to not in any manner bother any person out there who thinks my invocation of holiday cheer somehow has a hidden agenda of any kind (you see how nervous you can get in these days!). All good things to all opiniojuristers!
Best,
Ben
Now for the pun – I guess we will never know whether size (of the faculty) matters!
Best,
Ben
I enjoyed the posts and the responses, and I also found them informative. Indeed, shouldn’t that be exactly what a good blog does. And what could be better than seeing who a faculty member lists as his or her more esteemed faculty members when laying claim to why quality is the important factor.
Kevin, I don’t get it. With all the people that might have taken offense from the posts on this blog, including US officials, ICC Prosecutors, ICTY Judges and Registry, it is a post on the size of International Law Faculties that gets removed because of the reactions to it by academics!