Month: August 2012

Yesterday evening I read the really terrific report that Sven Beckert and Katherine Stevens produced around the undergraduate course they taught, the Harvard and Slavery Research Seminar.  A pdf of…

Larry Cunningham has a very interesting essay up on ssrn that looks at marketing materials that law schools send to other schools and relates them U.S. News peer assessment scores…

The University of Richmond is on a hiring spree this year.  They are looking to fill two tenure-track doctrinal faculty positions, a clinical faculty position, and a chaired position.  Cribbing ...

As long as I'm talking about speakers at the Triangle Legal History, I thought that I'd post the list of speakers at my sort-of neighbors up at the University of ...

We now have the schedule for the Triangle Legal History Seminar for the coming year.  Here are the speakers: Sept. 21,2012: Daniel Bessner, History Graduate Student, Duke University“’We Shall Repeal the Twentieth Century’:…

Following on from the amusing and productive discussion of best and worst law review artice titles, I couldn't help but notice (why was I looking at it anyway?) the cover…

Senior law editor Debbie Gershenowitz has moved today from NYU Press to Cambridge University Press! There are scores of authors that I am sure found it to be a pleasure…

Ealier this week the Boston Globe ran this story about a bill passed by the Massachusetts Senate and currently before its House Committee on Ways and Means. If the bill…

As it's that time of year again - all good profs sending out their articles for the fall submission cycle - I thought I'd take a poll of the best…

From my friend Jeff Lipshaw: SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL invites applications for an appointment as Professor in the Practice of Law to instruct in and direct its Transactional Skills Program…