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For the information of members of the Restitution Discussion Group, I am forwarding an announcement which I received today.

I should add that I received this message through my membership of LAWPROF, another email discussion group (or "listserv") which addresses anything related to teaching law. LAWPROF has a US tilt but there are many members from other jurisdictions. There are over 1000 members and message traffic is heavy: a dozen messages a day is not unusual, twice that not unknown. If you wish to subscribe to LAWPROF, send an email to this address:

listproc@chicagokent.Kentlaw.EDU

Leave the "subject" line blank and in the body of the message put

subscribe lawprof ‹your name and position and institution here›

You do not need to put your email address in the subscription request as the listserver gets it out of the message header. NOTE that (unlike the Restitution Discussion Group) subscription to LAWPROF is moderated, ie a human list supervisor will approve your request. This may take several days.

All the best,

Lionel Smith

The listserv PHIL-LIT is once again running the Bad Writing Contest. Please cross-post the following message on related lists for literary theory, philosophy, etc. --Denis Dutton

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The PHIL-LIT Bad Writing Contest

The challenge of the PHIL-LIT Bad Writing Contest is to come up with the ugliest, most stylistically awful single sentence--or string of up to no more than three sentences--out of a scholarly book or article. Ordinary journalism, fiction, etc. not allowed, nor is *translation* from other languages into English. Entries must be non-ironic, from actual serious academic journals or books--parodies cannot be admitted in a field where unintentional self-parody is so rampant. Winning entries will be checked by our research staff before prizes are awarded.

Judging will be by the PHIL-LIT list founders David Gershom Myers and Denis Dutton. The winning entrant will have first choice from among the following books, second prize will be second choice, and third will have what remains. The three prize books are: A Pitch of Philosophy, by Stanley Cavell (Harvard), Strolls with Pushkin, by Andrei Sinyavsky (Yale), and Hyper/Text/Theory, edited by George P. Landow (Johns Hopkins).

This is a serious contest, and an offensive one, we hope. We've fine prizes, so join the fun! Please use the subject heading "Bad writing entry" and copy the posting directly to Denis Dutton so we can keep track of the entries:

d.dutton@fina.canterbury.ac.nz.

The contest deadline: 1 March 1996.

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Anyone may join PHIL-LIT by sending the message

SUBSCRIBE PHIL-LIT Your Name

to: LISTSERV@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU

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Dr. Denis Dutton
Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Art
Editor, Philosophy and Literature
University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand
Phone: (03) 366-7001 Fax: (03) 364-2858