Welcome Back, Rector Dragas

Was it really just Tuesday that we all welcomed President Sullivan back to UVA?  It seems a lot longer ago than that.  Anyway, yesterday Governor McDonnell reappointed Helen Dragas to…

The Day After

Couple of thoughts about 11-393.  First, wow were the experts' predictions generally off the mark.   Remember how just a few days ago the "smart money" (i.e., Intrade) was telling…

Judge House Trivia

Shall we end the month with another judge house trivia question? Who lived in the house at right, where is it, and why was he important?  

Faculty Hiring: Oklahoma

From an email that I received yesterday: The University of Oklahoma College of Law is pleased to continue its multi-year hiring campaign to recruit top faculty to our flagship state…

Palfrey and Gasser on Interop

I've been reading John Palfrey and Urs Gasser's Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems, which has just come out from Basic Books.  They're interested in the technology…

Institutionalism and 11-393

So.  Some of the early speculation about Chief Justice Roberts' opinion in National Federation of Independent Businesses (known by me affectionately as 11-393) is that he was motivated by institutional…

Faculty Hiring: UC Davis

Cutting and pasting from an email that I received on Wednesday: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications from entry-level and experienced candidates for tenure-track and tenured…

Richard Ivanhoe Cocke

Following up on my posts on John Marshall and Edgar Allan Poe's foster parents, I want to continue talking about the people buried in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond.  Right…