Month: August 2009

From the October 15, 1897, New York Times (PDF file): (HT: @JuryTalk via Overlawyered) The story goes on to report that, according to the affidavit, the jury vote stood at…

So how was your weekend? Mine?  Pretty good.  Thanks for asking.But don't ask Link Christin, an adjunct law professor at William Mitchell.   He and 46 other passengers  were trapped in…

A few weeks ago, in Bank Failures in Historical Perspective, I noted that the total number of FDIC bank closures for the year was at 57, putting us on pace…

Anwar Sadat was the former President of Egypt who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 with Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin.One of the characters in this year's movie I…

Now that I've written a little bit about the paper Stephen Davis and I have  on antebellum trusts and estates -- and especially on the context of Greene County, Alabama, …

(310): we better have passed that bar exam - i dont want to have to drink like this again From Texts From Last Night, via Legal Antics, a text from…

Andrew Coats (pictured) announced a few days ago that he will leave the deanship at Oklahoma next summer.  He has been at the helm since 1996.  University president David Boren…

. . . are mostly sad: Tim Zinnecker (here at the Faculty Lounge) and Elizabeth Nowicki (at Concurring Opinions) on the death of Tulane law professor Brooke Overby (1960-2009). Larry…

Perhaps the most famous home run in the history of baseball occurred on October 3, 1951.  The New York Giants won 37 of their final 44 games of the season…

Like this 1965 photo of the Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator, via Wired Science. The man is in this photo is wearing a special pressurized spacesuit to help scientists study “the…