Month: February 2013

Had a very fun dinner the other night with a few friends who are legal historians (and one philosopher) and the discussion turned to Django.  I said something along the…

I saw in the obituaries at the New York Times yedsterday morning that Essie Mae Washington-Williams passed away on Feburary 4.  She was the daughter of Strom Thurmond.  A few years…

Peter Letsou, the outgoing dean of Willamette University College of Law, has been named to the deanship at the University of Memphis School of Law.  He has served as dean…

Christopher Anthony Cotropia  of the University of Richmond School of Law and Lee Petherbridge  of Loyola Los Angeles School of Law have just posted "The Dominance of Teams in the Production of Legal Knowledge."…

It now appears that the Tulane University business school provided false admissions data to US News for its graduate school issue for several years while Bucknell University provided fake undergraduate…

Louis Freeh, formerly a Judge on the the Southern District of New York and head of the FBI, has been named the new chair of Pepper, Hamilton, a Philadelphia-based law…

Thinking some more about Django.  I'm going to be talking about a bunch of vignettes from the movie, I think, as I try to work through some of my reaction.…

We've annoucned before (twice) that Supra and the Mississippi Law Journal  are hosting a CLE and symposium on Poverty & Access to Justice on February 8, 2013. Across the nation, states are grappling with ...

Yesterday's WaPo editorial, Our Shrinking Law Schools, was notable because - unlike the Times, which likes to frame the legal education crisis as a freestanding outrage - the Post  put…

Well, I've finally been able to set aside time to see Django.  Though I rarely see first run movies, I make an exception when they relate to Jim Crow or  slavery.…