Month: March 2012

One topic I've been asked about a lot lately is how Australian democracy runs smoothly without any clear express constitutional right to free speech.  There is a relatively restricted minor…

The New York Times had an article yesterday on Mitu Gulati's work on sovereign debt.  Here's a sample: Mitu Gulati, a charismatic law professor at Duke, and Lee C. Buchheit, the…

I have learned that the remaining three finalists in the University of Pittsburgh School of Law dean search are: David Harris (Pitt), Robert Ackerman (Wayne State), and Jeff Rosen (GW).…

Here's a link to a panel discussion of G. Edward White's Law in American History: From the Colonial Era Through the Civil War, which was held at UVA Law School back…

Over the last few weeks, discussions concerning immigration reform, in general, and the DREAM Act, in particular, have largely fallen out of public attention. About the only recent news from political…

One thing that I brought with me from practice to the academy is a fondness for charts in helping me decode complex rules.  I'm especially loyal to charts that route…

Back in January I wrote some about the intellectual origins of Derrick Bell's interest convergence theory, which located him in a tradition running back to James Madison and, to a…

I'm working away on a paper on what I like to refer to as the ideological origins of secession -- the constellation of ideas about the centrality of slavery to ...

This announcement just came in: Tulane Law School is currently accepting applications for a two-year position of visiting assistant professor. The position is being supported by the Murphy Institute at…

From our friends in the Phoenix area: The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University is seeking a visitor to teach commercial law courses during the Fall…