Month: October 2012

I was thinking this afternoon that this blog needs some more pictures of courthouses, particuarly from before the Civil War.   Here's one of the Petersburg, Virginia, courthouse that I…

From an email that I received today: SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL in Boston invites applications for a position as an Assistant Professor of Academic Support beginning in the spring semester…

It's time to remind readers that we're hosting the inaugural MALSA conference here  at Drexel on October 19-20.  With over 100 presenters, this promises to be a phenomenal organizational kickoff…

From the editors of the Case Western Reserve University Law Review comes the announcement of a new initiative involving podcasts of articles published in the review. For each issue of…

It's October, which ought to really be my favorite month because this is the one month when it's socially acceptable to talk about cemeteries.  But instead of posting some more…

As I'm working on edits on the first chapter of University, Court, and Slave, I'm revisiting the trials that took place in Southampton County in the wake of the Nat…

For years, certain critics of the American Bar Association's regulation of U.S. law schools have argued that schools should have the freedom to design their own programs, on their own…

I'm pleased to report that the Drexel Law Review will be hosting a conference, Building Global Professionalism: Emerging Trends in International and Transnational Legal Education, this weekend.  The journal has…

Need an Amtrak Northeast Corridor lost and found phone number?  As a community service, and notwithstanding the fact that this is not the normal coverage of this blog, I'm going…

In honor of Governor Romney's address at VMI today I thought that I'd post a little on constitutional ideas at VMI before the Civil War.  (That is, recycle a July ...