Month: December 2012

Well, usually my courthouse trivia questions are about courthouses built during the nineteenth century.  But how about one from the colonial era?  Where is the courthouse at right and what…

Now that Owen's identified the Greensville County Courthouse in Emporia, Virginia, I want to talk a little bit about the World War I monument on the courthouse lawn.  At right…

Well, it's been a long time since we've had a courhouse trivia question.  Maybe that's been because it's been a long time since I've visited a new courthouse!  But on…

Wayne State University Law School has named Jocelyn Benson as its new interim dean.  Benson, who holds a JD from Harvard, joined the Wayne State faculty in 2005.

I see that Elizabeth Varon's biography of Elizabeth Van Lew is on sale (I misread the OUP sales catalog this morning and though this was forthcoming).  Cribbing now from the…

Way back in the stone age, as a young pup, when I was blogging at Concurring Opinions, I was intrigued by Costco's entry into the casket business.  Now those crafty…

Check out Saul Cornell's piece at the Daily Beast on the history of the second amendment.  Here is a short excerpt: If the Heller court had simply said, “Look, most Americans think…

Hofstra is removing the "interim" tag from Eric Lane's title, naming him the law school's ninth dean, effective January 1, 2013.  Story here.  Lane joined the Hofstra law faculty in…

Browsing the spring/summer Oxford University Press catalog I see that Lea VanderVelde's Redemption Songs: Courtroom Stories of Slavery will be out next year.  Cribbing now from the catalog description: There is…

That's got to be how Glenn Reynolds is feeling.  He opens his pro-gun USA Today editorial with this: After a shooting spree," author William Burroughs once said, "they always want to take…