Month: November 2012

With all the recent discussions about the need to re-think legal education and the value proposition facing law students deciding about attending law school, I started wondering - and I'd…

Everybody is talking about Orin Kerr's seminal, germinal, and generative article, A Theory of Law.  It's become so important so quickly that Ross Davies and the folks at the Green…

Florida State College of Law announced here its upcoming symposium "One-Hundred Years of the Federal Income Tax," March 1-2, 2013.  There are fourteen "featured presenters and commentators." Only one is…

Daniel Attridge, who has served as managing partner of the DC office of Kirkland & Ellis since 1998, has been named the new dean of Catholic University's Columbus School of…

Robert Ackerman, who has served as the dean of the Wayne State Law School since 2008, has announced that he will be leaving the position this month.  He will assume…

Maybe because I taught Sanborn v. McLean recently I've been thinking about gas stations.  Anyway, I thought I'd put up this photograph of an old Gulf station from Siler City,…

Final update This is a brutal time to take leadership of a new law school, but openings must be filled!  Here, then, is the list for annual list, which I…

Well, given the conflict over Bill Reynolds' post on the South and the Civil War, I thought it might be time for a  little talk of reconciliation here!  So ...…

R.B. Bernstein reviews Bernard Bailyn's most recent book, The Barbarous Years, at the Daily Beast.  Though I have not yet had a chance to read the book, R.B. does a…

Last year, I blogged a few times about Duke’s year-long Custom and Law project, which culminated in a Duke Law Journal symposium in February.  Kieran Healy and I presented a…