Month: August 2012

The ever-thoughtful David Lyons of Boston University Law School -- whose interests and mine intersect at reparations -- has a new paper up on ssrn, "Slavery and the Rule of…

This is one of my favorite photographs from the summer; I don't know anything about the house (other than that it's in Wylliesburg, Virginia -- which is where I took…

Bill Turnier sends along this ESPN story about my former University of Alabama colleague Gene Marsh's work on behalf of Penn State.  That was high stakes they were playing for.…

Last month my colleague at the University of Alabama Dan Joyner started the Arms Control Blog.  The blogging team in addition to Dan is: Marco Roscini, University of Westminster Faculty of…

This just in from our colleagues at USC Law: The University of South Carolina School of Law invites applications for entry-level, tenure-track faculty to begin in the fall of 2013.…

Which Civil War General died in this house at right?  Where is the house?

So, as some of you guessed from the photos (or because I told you before I left), I just recently returned from teaching in a joint Duke-Hong Kong University summer…

It's my pleasure to announce that Peter Conti-Brown, who is an Academic Fellow, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford, is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for a…

Danielle Citron wrote about this yesterday over at co-op and Frank Pasquali wrote about it at balkinization. Professor Lee Kovarsky of the University of Maryland has more details on the…

If only I had a ton of money, I'd open a bookstore.  Really. When Borders closed its stores, much of the Philadelphia metro area lost easy access to books.  That's…