Two Joint Appointments for USC: Scotchmer, Watson

The Law School at the University of Southern California has made two senior, joint appointments this year.  Suzanne Scotchmer, who teaches economoics and public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and who works on game theoretical and economic issues related to intellectual property and innovation, will hold a joint appointment with the Law School and the Department of Economics.  Gary Watson, a leading writer on free will and cognate issues in action theory and moral philosophy, will take emeritus status at the University of California at Riverside and take up a joint appointment with the Law School (1/3rd time) and Department of Philosophy at USC.  (USC Law also has an offer out to the legal philosopher Martin Stone at Cardozo Law School.)