Month: January 2012

Here's some really exciting news for early career legal historians .... The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation has generously funded a prize of $2,500 for an excellent article in American legal…

Well, given the impending South Carolina primary I guess it's time for a South Carolina monument picture.  At right is the monument to the Revolutionary War battle at Cowpens.  The…

This semester, Rutgers-Newark is beginning an off-cycle faculty search: Rutgers School of Law-Newark is seeking entry level and lateral faculty candidates for a tenure track corporate law position commencing July…

I'm very pleased to announce that my former colleague Dana Remus (formerly Dana Irwin) will be returning to Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law this fall as a tenured…

Princeton University History Professor Hendrik Hartog's op-ed in yesterday's New York Times, "Bargaining for a Child's Love," begins in this way: ECONOMIC malaise and political sloganeering have contributed to the increasingly loud…

In The Writer's Journey (3 ed, p 232), Christopher Vogler notes in terms of screenwriting that today's youth have a shorter attention span than ever but at the same time…

I'm not sure why I haven't focused more attention on the controversy over the Martin Luther King monement's inscription that "I was a drum major for peace, justice, and righteousness."…

With thanks to a colleague - I won't embarrass her by identifying her here - some of you may enjoy this comic novel excerpt from Cameron Stracher's new work, The…

The University of LaVerne School of Law has been going through a series of tough shocks of late.  Last year, the ABA decided to deny the LaVerne full accreditation and…

As Paul Caron noted, the July California bar results are out.  Although Paul has highlighted the results for California schools, it seems worth sharing the results for ABA schools outside…