Month: May 2013

I recently had the pleasure of reading Yale English Professor Caleb Smith's The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War.  It's about…

The deadline (May 31) for the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation's prize for an outstanding article published by an early career scholar is rapidly approaching.  By way of background, the William…

I want to pass along the sad news that one of my mentors, Richard Coulson, passed away last week.  Richard, whose scholarship was centered around international law and legal history,…

As most people know by now, Above the Law created its own Top 50 rankings here.  It engaged in self-reflection here and here.  And now its methodologist-in-chief has been interviewed…

The University of San Francisco School of Law named John Trasviña its new dean last week.   Trasviña, who holds a JD from Stanford, is currently the Assistant Secretary for Fair…

Very soon I'm going to have some trivia related to the Nat Turner rebellion (broadly construed).  But I thought that I'd start the summer off with a trivia question about…

Further to the recent literature on the history of capitalism -- to which legal history has a lot to add.

The O'Reilly Theater at Keble College, Oxford recently played host to a new show: John Rawls's A Theory of Justice: The Musical!  It was billed as "an all-singing, all-dancing romp…

I mentioned yesterday the inept reference that Tom Buchanan made in The Great Gatsby to Lothrop Stoddard's The Rising Tide of Color -- which is really a scary book.   Right now…

Michael Burger and Paul Frymer have a new paper up on ssrn, "Property Law and American Empire," which is about to appear in the University of Hawaii Law Review.  Cribbing…