Month: March 2013

I promised to talk a bit more about the Organs & Inducements symposium that I mentioned earlier.  I’ll refrain from giving much detail about individual papers at this point, as…

File this under books I'm looking forward to reading this summer -- Megan Reid's Law and Piety in Medieval Islamic Law. Cribbing now from the Cambridge University Press website: The…

I'm pleased to see that Acting White: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America by Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati is now out from Oxford University Press.  I've been hearing about this for…

Thanks to Gary Rosin for pointing out that the summary of the new ABA law school employment data release is here.  School by school statistics can be found, individually, here.…

  I, of course, meant to post this in advance of the symposium, but underestimated the amount of time and attention last minute details would consume (what’s that phrase about…

Anthony Baker's article "'For the Murder of His Own Female Slave, a Woman Named Mira…': Slavery, Law and Incoherence in Antebellum Culture" is now up on ssrn.  The abstract is…

It's my great pleasure to announce that Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History is now available at Barnes and Noble, a few days ahead of the publication date of ...

Senior Federal District Judge William Walls denied Widener Law's FRCP 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss in an action alleging that Widener University School of Law "posted to its website, and disseminated…

The American Bar Association announced today that Barry Currier will be the ABA's new managing director of accreditation and legal education.  This is a new title, replacing the former positionof…

A couple of UVA alumni commented on my post about Jim Hall's article on the University of Alabama's destruction during the war about how much Alabama's pre-war campus looked like…