Month: March 2011

You will enjoy Christopher Benfey's review of Peter Wood's Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War (HUP 2010) in the most recent issue of NYROB.   The title of Wood's book (which was…

Sure, it's only 2011, but the new 2012 U.S. News rankings are out.  The most surprising thing about this year's U.S. News law school rankings is that the magazine (if ...

We're in the middle (or are we nearing the end?) of the spring submission process.  Some lucky souls have hit paydirt with "top twenty" placements, others are playing the "trade…

"If Ronald Dworkin were a hotel he would be the Savoy, but a Savoy that is genuinely open to all, doors always open, guests spilling into the reception rooms, talking,…

The Chronicle has an article, "Lawsuits by Victims of Terrorism Imperil Archeological Studies," that I think a lot of you will find of interest -- perhaps especially those who work…

KU has released the name of the third candidate for the law school's deanship:  Stephen Mazza (pictured), law prof and current interim dean at Kansas.

You dine at Restaurant #1.  You receive the bill, with no guidance on an appropriate tip. You dine at Restaurant #2.  You receive the bill, with a calculation of what…

No, not the heavy metal band. A friend sent along yesterday the case of In re Gary Ronald Perez, 30 F.3d 1209 (9th Cir., 1994).  An appeal from an order…

I've been following for a while now the controversy that my neighbors Mitu Gulati and Curtis Bradley have stirred with their article, "Withdrawing from Custom," which appeared in the Yale Law…

Readers who are following the ongoing political violence in Libya may be interested to know that Genocide and Political Groups was published late last year by Oxford University Press.  Its…