Month: July 2012

One thing that I have not yet seen any commentary on is Chief Justice Robert's quotation from the essay that John Marshall published in defense of McCullough in the Alexandria Gazette.  Marshall…

I'm passing along this conference announcement: Northeast Regional Law and Society Meeting January 11-12, 2013 Amherst College Invitation and Call for Participation You are cordially invited to participate in the…

Alexander Tsesis' new book, For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence appeared a couple of months ago from Oxford University Press.  Cribbing now from the…

Yale University has just announced that it is opening a new doctoral program in law.  Unsurprisingly, it will be offered through the law school - in addition to the existing…

Louis Freeh and his firm delivered a fat package at 9am this morning - 267 pages of stuff all about the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal at Penn State.  Much…

Jack Sullivan has an extensive story about restrictive covenants that the Boston Archdiocese and the Springfield Archdiocese place on property that they sell in the summer issue of CommonWealth.  Sullivan…

It's my pleasure to announce that Michelle N. Meyer is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Michelle is a Petrie-Flom Fellow at Harvard Law…

Given the criticisms in the comments to Bridget Crawford's post on the law professor Twitter census, I think it might be worth it to look a little more deeply at…

My school has gradually moved from paper-based course evaluations to online evaluations over the last couple of years.  I have now had about three or four of my courses evaluated…

I've been working on a short review of the first volume of G. Edward White's Law in American History trilogy.  I'm particularly interested in his method -- how law occupies a…