Month: July 2009

Given that the 8/5/09 deadline is less than two weeks away, I thought I'd repost my thoughts on the FAR form.Recent posts here and elsewhere have started to address the…

The Tour de France ended yesterday, with Alberto Contador in yellow, and Lance Armstrong on the podium in third.  Like Gordon, I love the Tour de France for many reasons,…

In the series of posts that I'm doing on the paper Stephen Davis and I have up on ssrn about wills and trusts in the old South, I thought that…

While I'm still reeling from the news that Harvard University Press' display room is closed, I see that HUP has signed a deal with Scribd to distribute HUP books in…

Well, I was up Hillsborough recently to check out some of the historical sites up there.  (I wrote a little bit about Thomas Ruffin's grave not too long ago.)  On…

I think I read somewhere in the New York Times this weekend that President Obama described the incident involving the arrest of his friend, Harvard Prof Henry Gates and its…

Mary Dudziak, at Legal History Blog, discusses books and book reviews of interest to legal historians, including Charlotte Brooks' new book, Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the…

Yesterday's local newspaper reported that 33-year-old Ri Hyon Ok was publicly executed last month in North Korea.  The story also mentions that her husband, three children, and parents have been…

Over at the Glom for the best footnote ever: Compare INVASION Of THE BODY SNATCHERS (Walter Wanger Productions 1956) (depicting pod people as merely pointing silently at humans that had…

When Officer Crowley, Professor Gates, and President Obama sit down to a beer at the White House (or perhaps it should be at a neutral place, like Fenway Park--next time…