Richard Barnes: 1954-2013

Richard Barnes, a law professor at the University of  Mississippi since 1989, died a few days ago in an automobile accident.  Richard was a kindred spirit in the UCC, and…

Katie Holmes, Attorney At Law?

For readers desperate to confirm that Katie Holmes, actress and ex-wife of Scientologist Tom Cruise, is headed to law school, I have very good news: there has never been a…

Empowering Words

As I'm sitting here trying to draw inferences about constitutional culture from college literary society debates, I'm thinking about some of the other literature that looks to the views of…

Increasing Teaching Loads

Shortly after Dan Filler started this blog in the spring of 2008 I put up a couple of posts about blogging.  One asked why I'm doing this (or, to use the…

Grade Expectations

I've been asking a few students lately what they mean by a phrase most of us profs hear ocasionally at this time of year when going over last semester's exam…