Month: December 2012

David Attanasio of Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Derecho has posted "Mass Reparations in Unequal and Resource-Limited Societies: A Social Repair Framework."  Here is Attanasio's abstract: While it has received limited treatment…

Last December I started a tradition of posting a favorite picture from the year.   That one was from the Gettysburg cemetery.  This tradition isn't quite Elf on the Shelf (btw,…

As I am thinking about Taja-Nia Henderson's really exciting work on incarcertaion and slavery in pre-Civil War Virginia, the Hanover County jail comes to mind.   It's right next to…

While the profs have been weighing in re attitudes on grading in an earlier post, I wondered if any students (if any are reading this) would like to weigh in…

The editors of the CWRU Law Review have advised that they have recently published a posthumous essay on the right to bear arms by Professor Peter Junger - who was…

Things have been a little quiet around these parts of late -- I'm guessing everyone's grading and spending time with their families.  It's been a while since we had an…

Ray Madoff of Boston College Law School has the latest on tax fairness in today's Washington Post.

Well, I've spoken several times before about Blackhead Signpost Road in Southampton County, Virginia.  I just realized that there's a Nat Turner Boulevard in Newport News.  And -- not kidding…

It's the end of the year -- and you all have been fantastic at picking off the trivia questions.  Over time I guess the accomplishments of Owen, Richard Paschal, Jason…

Now that Richard Paschal's identified the Hanover County Courthouse, here's the picture of the Confederate monument on the courthouse lawn that I promised. Rather impressive, but not my favorite Confederate…