Month: April 2012

Kristin Kalsem of the University of Cincinnati School of Law has just published In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature.  Cribbing now a little from the Ohio State Press' webpage on the…

Well, my office isn't as bad as the one shown below, but I'd better get to cleaning. Actually, the picture is of Madrid-based artist Alicia Martín's Biografias, a 2003 site-specific…

Now that classes are done here in lovely Chapel Hill, I want to take a breath for a moment and talk about articles I've been reading.  First, something related to…

I was disappointed to see Friday's editorial in the Daily Oklahoman about the recent tragic murders in Tulsa, provocatively titled "Circus accompanying Revs. Jackson, Sharpton is last thing Tulsa needs."  There…

I've been working of late on the administrative law of sterilization: how the law provided a framework for the selection of people to be sterilized and how it dealt with…

Here is an editorial from yesterday's Winston Salem Journal on the movement for compensation for victims of North Carolina's sterilization movement and here is an editorial from John Hood, the…

For what I expect will be my last Civil Rights building trivia question of the semester, I'm using a suggestion from Carl Tobias.  What is the building at right, where ...

At the MSU Law Review Symposium on "Gender and the Legal Profession's Pipeline to Power," Professor Paula Monopoli (Maryland) is talking about masculine norms in the legal academy.  She is…

Doug  Branson (Pitt) is the author of No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom (NYU Press 2008).  At the MSU Symposium…

In honor of Thomas Jefferson's birthday (which would have passed right by me had Kim Forde-Mazrui not mentioned this earlier in the week), I thought I'd post a picture of…