Month: February 2013

I have just heard from Carl Tobias the beloved and distinguished professor Dan Meador of the University of Virginia law school has passed away.  Meador, a native of Selma, was…

While chatting about the current law review submission season with some colleagues, a question came up that I've never really thought about before because I tend to write in areas…

I'm delighted to announce that Tera Hunter, Professor of History and African American Studies at Princeton University, will be delivering the 9th annual African American history month lecture here at UNC…

This is tragic for all concerned, a lesson in the problems with home owners associations, and how people become entrenched in positions.  But from the perspective of a property professor,…

I think people are over-doing it with the comparisons of Samuel L. Jackson's character (Stephen) in Django Unchained to Uncle Tom.  I mean, have the people drawing these parallels ever…

Taking twitter to new heights, kinda. Seriously -- I think you'll enjoy Michele Norris' theracecardproject.com, which invites readers to "Think about the word race.  Now think about how you would…

The University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville, is looking for a person to serve as its Director of Externships and Academic Success.   More details are here.

I've been writing for some time now about the rebirth of writing on reparations.  Further to that point I see that there are two new articles on ssrn.  Eric Yamamoto…

I'm preparing for a CLE lecture I'm giving tomorrow afternoon on the trials in the wake of the Nat Turner rebellion.  Because I frame the lectures between two North Carolina…

Recently, I was working on a column about issues facing new law professors now entering the teaching market in uncertain economic times (re tenure, balancing teaching/scholarship etc).  It got me…