Legal Scholarship as a Vocation

Law professors occupy a twin role as scholars and (most of them, at any rate) as lawyers. Deborah Rhode has pointed out, in her contribution to this symposium, that the lawyer role of the professor carries with it some frequently overlooked obligations, specifically the obligation to perform pro bono service. I agree with her, and have ventured similar arguments myself. Here I will address the more purely theoretical side of the legal scholar\u27s vocation. The text I will take for my sermon is the famous speech on the scholar\u27s role that Max Weber delivered to a student audience eighty years ago in Munich, under the title Science as a Vocation. Weber\u27s topic was not just the natural sciences. Wissenschaft, the German word for science, has a broader meaning than the natural sciences: it refers to systematic scholarly inquiry, regardless of the field. Weber\u27s principal theme was the same as I take mine to be, the inward caIling for science

Weber and Coyote : polytheism as a practical attitude

This document is the Accepted Manuscript of an article accepted for publication in Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions. Under embargo until 9 September 2018. The final, definitive version is available online at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11841-018-0641-1Hyde claims that the trickster spirit is necessary for the renewal of culture, and that he only lives in the ‘complex terrain of polytheism’. Fortunately for those of us in monotheistic cultures, Weber gives reasons for thinking that polytheism is making a return, albeit in a new, disenchanted form. The plan of this paper is to elaborate some basic notions from Weber (rationalisation, disenchantment, bureaucracy), to explore Hyde’s thesis in more detail and then to take up the question of the plurality of spirits both around and within us and whether the trickster is one of them. Weber has three roles in this argument. First, he theorises rationalisation, disenchantment and bureaucracy; second, he offers an argument that in a certain sense polytheism is returning (if it ever went away); and third, he presents a way to translate the mytho-poetic register in which Hyde works into terms acceptable to social science of a more materialist bent. The claim of the paper is that polytheism as a practical attitude means recognising that there are diverse and contradictory ethical orders built into the world around us and active with our psyches. Weber explains why this is especially difficult for us (because our lives are so thoroughly rationalised), and Hyde offers us the hope that we may be tricky enough to cope.Peer reviewe

Guide to the Weber Vineyards Collection

The Weber Collection holds information of harvest details of the Weber Vineyards from 1984-1995. Along with a few pictures, this collection retains documents on spray programs, harvesting records, research, and finances. There is also information on day-to-day schedules of the vineyard, to-do lists, and daily notes

Guide to the Weber Vineyards Collection

The Weber Collection holds information of harvest details of the Weber Vineyards from 1984-1995. Along with a few pictures, this collection retains documents on spray programs, harvesting records, research, and finances. There is also information on day-to-day schedules of the vineyard, to-do lists, and daily notes

Local Column Density Distribution Function from HI selected galaxies

The cross-section of sky occupied by a particular neutral hydrogen column density provides insight into the nature of Lyman-alpha absorption systems. We have measured this column density distribution at z=0 using 21-cm HI emission from a blind survey. A subsample of HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) galaxies have been imaged with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The contribution of low HI mass galaxies 10^7.5 to 10^8 M_solar is compared to that of M_star (10^10 to 10^10.5 M_solar) galaxies. We find that the column density distribution function is dominated by low HI mass galaxies with column densities in the range 3x10^18 to 2x10^20 cm^-2. This result is not intuitively obvious. M_star galaxies may contain the bulk of the HI gas, but the cross-section presented by low HI mass galaxies 10^7.5 to 10^8 M_solar is greater at moderate column densities. This result implies that moderate column density Lyman-alpha absorption systems may be caused by a range of galaxy types and not just large spiral galaxies as originally thought.Comment: 5 pages, including 1 figure. To appear in "Extragalactic Gas at Low Redshift" (ASP Conf. Series, Weymann Conf.

Iyer Laboratory: Gel-free Library Preparation Protocol

Originally developed by Amelia Weber Hall in October 2012, then modified to avoid usage of silica gel columns to improve yield. Used for preparing libraries of DNA derived from chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments by the Iyer lab, and distributed to several other labs across Central Texas. Documented by Amelia Weber Hall, December 2012, March 2015, and June 2017. This protocol should work well with any DNA that needs to be prepared into a library for high-throughput sequencing, however it is highly optimized for small (nanogram to pictogram) quantities of DNA.Molecular Bioscience

A Chamber Music Concert, April 19, 1984

This is the concert program of the Chamber Music Concert on Thursday, April 19, 1984 at 6:00 p.m., at the Marshall Room, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. The work performed was Trio for flute, cello, and piano in G minor, Op. 63 by Carl Maria von Weber. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund