Month: May 2009

As Howard Wasserman reports, Alex Acosta has been named the new dean of Florida International University School of Law.   Acosta, 40, is the sitting U.S. Attorney for the Southern…

Chris Guthrie, 42, was named the new dean of Vanderbilt Law today.   He served as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs from 2004-08.   Guthrie has agreed to a five…

There's a very short slice of a speech that Judge Sotomayor gave in February 2005 at Duke making the rounds on the internet, in which she says something that some…

Many, many congratulations to Judge Sotomayor on her nomination to the United States Supreme Court.  The confirmation hearings promise a robust debate on the role of empathy and on the role…

New Hampshire's governor, John Lynch, has refused to sign a same sex marriage bill that does not include substantial protections for religious individuals and institutions who disagree with the law.…

Update:  Neither of the following count as early scholarship, but ... in honor of her impending nomination to be Supreme Court Justice, here's a link to Judge Sotomayor's 2004 tribute to…

Yesterday's Birmingham News ran a story by Erin Stock about a most, most extraordinary case: that of Vietnam Veteran and hero Bill Terry.  Mr. Terry died in 1969 in Vietnam, ...

Since this is Memorial Day weekend, I thought that I'd dip into my stock of photos and post something from a National Cemetery.  Close readers of the blogosphere (and my…

In Thursday morning's Washington Post, Robert Barnes and Shailagh Murray suggest that two former law professors, Diane Wood and Elena Kagan, are emerging are front-runners for nomination to the Supreme Court.…

What you see in this troubling video may be perfectly understandable on a human level: irate cops finally catch up with an out of control driver (who may have targeted…