Welcome To Two New Permanent Bloggers: Michelle Meyer and Jeff Redding

We're incredibly pleased to announce that two new permabloggers are joining the Faculty Lounge.  Many of you will already be familiar with their particularly engaging (and at times controversial) posts.

Michelle Meyer  is finishing a fellowship at the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School and is moving to become an assistant professor  of Bioethics at the Union Graduate College of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.   She holds an AB from Dartmouth, a JD from Harvard, and a Ph.D in Religious Studies from Virginia.   Her publications are here.

Jeff Redding is an associate professor at Saint Louis University School of Law.   He has a BA from Harvard and a  JD from Chicago.  He teaches civil procedure and comparative law.  His publications are here.

Comments

[Michelle Meyer]

Thanks to Dan and the rest of the permabloggers for having me aboard; I'm looking forward to it. Over the next few weeks, I plan to blog about nudges and some issues at the intersection of philosophy and psychology (in conjunction with brief pieces that are forthcoming on those topics) as well as a few unfolding controversies at the intersection of law and science, likely including the regulation of comparative effectiveness research; the Havasupai genetic research case which was settled out of court in 2010 but has recently resurfaced; and the latest on the Henrietta Lacks's HeLa cell line and genetic privacy.

In the meantime, for the two of you who may be interested (hi Mom and Dad), you can see a more up-to-date c.v. and fuller description of what I'm up to these days by clicking on my name in the list of permanent bloggers, thataway --->

[Daniel S. Goldberg]

Hi Michelle,

If you're fielding requests, 'd be interested to hear your take on -- well, on almost anything -- but especially on Paul Crawshaw's recent critique that the recent focus on nudging still adopts a neoliberal (yes yes, a catchphrase for all horribles, but not entirely w/o content IMO), hopelessly individualist perspective.

http://csp.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/06/03/0261018313483489.abstract

Mazel tov on the new position, BTW!

[Michelle Meyer]

Thanks, Daniel; that's kind and generous of you to say. And sure, I take requests -- the tip jar's over there on the piano. In all seriousness, though, my forthcoming piece on nudges defends them against attack from the right, but I'll be happy to take a whack at the left, too, and defend the hopelessly individualist perspective in my blog post :-)