Month: June 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: March 15, 2012 “Hate and Political Discourse” Journal of Hate Studies Volume X, No. 1 (2012/13) Guest Editor: Robert L. Tsai, J.D. Professor of Law, American…

Eric Posner reviews Elizabeth Price Foley’s The Law of Life and Death (HUP) in The New Republic. An excerpt: In eighty years or so, the average American goes from blob…

Thoughts from Brian Tamanaha and Steve Bainbridge on what “The Lawyer Surplus” means for law schools Update: And Ribstein     Follow @KimKrawiec

Several sad items in this news story: (1) Lorenzo Charles was killed; (2) he ended his career as a tour bus driver; and (3) people take bus tours of Raleigh,…

Those writing about a criminal punishment-related topic this summer mayt want to consider participating in the ABA-AALS joint conference "Reducing Our Reliance on Incarceration," October 27-28 in D.C. In addition…

Ok, so my judge house trivia question -- of Chief Justice Marshall's house in Richmond -- was solved quickly.  How about a courthouse trivia question, then.  This'll be a little…

I’ve decided I like that name much better than either “EU Brady Bonds” or “The Vienna Initiative.” Via Tracy Alloway at Alphaville comes the text of the Greek rollover plan.…

I'm out of town these days, on a research trip, so it's time for a trivia question.  Here's a house of a famous jurist.  Am I making this too easy…

Hmm . . . whether to blog about the Greek debt rollover or alcohol and television? . . .  Alcohol and television win for the moment.  Who knew that a…

I have just received my teaching evaluations for last year and was struck by the number of people who commented about my Cyberlaw course that they really enjoyed the course,…