Month: August 2012

University of Richmond law professor Mary Kelly Tate, who's director of UR's innocence project, has the latest on the North Carolina state innocence project here.

I usually only ask one trivia question per day.  But as I'm working on my essay review of David Rabban's important and imminently forthcoming volume on late-nineteenth century jurisprudence and…

Lloyd Bonfield has just published Devising, Dying, and Dispute: Probate Litigation in Early Modern England.  Cribbing now from the Ashgate website: Seventeenth-century England was a country obsessed with property rights. For only…

Some time back I posted a picture of the Birmingham Jail.  Here's another jail.  It's no longer in use.  As I recall it goes back to the pre-Civil War era.…

You may recall that beloved law professor and feminist jurisprudence scholar Ann Scales passed away last June 24 -- the day after the fortieth anniversary of Title IX, as Tom Russell…

Dan's post on the best independent bookstores inspires me to start posting some of the photographs of bookstores I've been collecting for a few years now.  I used Lexington's Books…

Lisa J. Laplante of the University of Connecticut School of Law has a new paper, "Negotiating Reparation Rights: The Participatory and Symbolic Quotients," up on ssrn.  Laplant's important article reminds ...

As I'm sitting here working a little on a piece with Stacey Gahagan on Obama's 1994 race and law syllabus, I have suddenly become very interested in Paul Ryan's early…

Please note that the deadline for the following call for papers has been extended to September 4, 2012.   Call for Papers AALS Joint Program of the Securities Regulation Section…

There's still a few weeks left of summer technically, even though we're supposed to be doing class prep and polishing off those articles for law review submissions, so I guess…