My last post of this year is about what case should be first in property. Following up on my recent post on Integrating Spaces -- and recognizing that this is the…
My father and I viewed True Grit last week. Imagine my delight when, about 30-40 minutes into the film, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) informs Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) that an…
Over at the History News Network, UCLA history professor Joyce Appleby is collecting support of historians, political scientists, and legal scholars for a petition urging a change in the Senate filibuster…
A holiday gift from a friend with a sense of humor. Of course, it got me wondering what was the largest denomination ever issued. According to Tom Chao’s Paper Money…
I'll take advantage of the fact that I'm snow bound to talk about something that I've been meaning to blog about for a few weeks: Integrating Spaces: Property Law and…
After this year's successful progam in Philadelphia, the 2011 meeting of the American Society for Legal History will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, November 10-13, 2011. The Society has issued…
Those familiar with the lateral appointments process may have encountered what seems to be a reasonably common practice: the appointments committee will often ask the candidate to identify a certain…