Month: March 2012

Three of my favorite legal historians have articles in the most recent issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy: James W. Ely on "The Constitution and Economic…

From our friends in Las Vegas: UNLV, Boyd School of Law is seeking visitors for 2012-2013.  We are open to both semester and year-long visits.  Particular areas of interest include…

Here's what I have so far re faculty visitors for 2012-2013. Please keep the updates coming either in the comments below or email me at liptonj@duq.edu The school in bold…

I have it on good authority that (absent some breaking news that pre-empts the human events story), my colleauge Bill Turnier will be on the CBS evening news this evening.…

Ok--working away on constitutionalism and secession, so I'm sticking me head up for two stories from the last couple of days about legal academics  in public.  First, Ben Barton in…

I'm delighted to repor that Calvin Massey's new casebook, Property Law: Principles, Problems, and Cases, has just arrived in my mailbox.   Perhaps most exciting to me is that it…

From an email I received earlier today: "The University of Oklahoma College of Law is seeking podium visitors for the Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 semesters.  Particular areas of interest…

Thanks are first in order to Kim Kraweic and Dan Filler for my opportunity to guest blog here over the next few weeks. As a huge fan of the greatest…

Christina Hull Paxson, a Swarthmore and Columbia grad, will take over as the new president of Brown University on July 1.  She replaces Ruth Simmons, who has served in that role…

I'm spending a lot of time these days dealing with southern constitutional thought before the Civil War. Never ceases to surprise me how much one can bend constitutional interpretation to ...