Month: April 2012

As I've been working on testamentary devises in the Shenandoah Valley before the Civil War I've been thinking a great deal about the differences in how male testators treat their…

I'm wishing good things for my property students who're taking their exam tomorrow morning and thought that I'd post a fragment of a letter I came across in an archive…

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It is my pleasure to introduce a new guest blogger for May, Joe Tomain. Professor Tomain is an Assistant Professor at Florida Coastal School of Law.  Prior to joining Florida…

Emory University School of Law has announced the appointment of Robert Schapiro as the school's permanent dean.  He  has been serving as interim dean since last July.  Schapiro is a…

Brent Evan Newton, who is the deputy staff director at the US Sentencing Commission and teaches at the Georgetown University Law Center, has recently posted an important paper, "Law Review…

The University of Pittsburgh School of Law has named Professor William Carter of Temple as its new dean.  Carter, who holds a JD from Case Western University, is a constitutional…

First came New York Law School.  Then Brooklyn Law.  Now Baltimore has joined the club of law schools appointing high powered politico lawyers as dean.  The University of Baltimore School of Law announced…

Jim Chen, who has served as dean at the University of Louisville School of Law, will be stepping down on June 30 at the end of his five year term.…

Well, since I last wrote about President Obama's visit to UNC, a few things have happened.  Yesterday I was able to get a ticket and then this morning I went…