Month: October 2012

Thanks to a tip from Leah Campbell, I see this article from the Yale Herald on the naming of two new residential colleges at Yale.  It has extensive discussion of…

For the next couple of weeks, the folks over at the Loyola LA Law Faculty Blog - Summary Judgments -  are focusing on issues important to the upcoming election.   They're…

It's my pleasure to announce that Bill Reynolds, the Jacob A. France Professor of Judicial Process at the University of Maryland, is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for…

As I'm getting ready for a trip to Richmond to do some archival work for my paper on the Nat Turner rebellion, I've been going through the Library of Virginia's fabulous…

The University of Michigan Law School Program in Race, Law & History and the William L. Clements Library in collaboration with the University of Michigan Library will be hosting a…

Mary Bilder's paper, "How Bad Were the Records of the Constitutional Convention," which will appear momentarily in the George Washington Law Review's symposium on the 100th anniversary of Max Farrand's…

I'm surprised that this LA Times story hasn't received more national press...yet.   Decades of confidential sexual abuse allegations from within the Boy Scouts of America will spill into public…

Folks with an interest in public health may wish to visit this link for details on a new "scholars in residence" program in that field. Hat tip to friend Katharine…

As I've been working on the trials in the wake of the Nat Turner rebellion, I've been thinking in particular about the lawyers who represented the enslaved people.  The trials themselves were…

From an email that I received earlier today: The University of Georgia School of Law seeks a tenure-track assistant professor to serve as the director of a to-be-created Medical-Legal Partnership…