Month: July 2013

In recent debates about the relative merits of Janet Yellen versus Larry Summers for the job of Fed Chair, one of the more interesting aspects to me has been the…

I've been talking about how the Nat Turner rebellion stretched into the North Carolina counties neighboring Southampton, Virginia -- and especially the beheading of a slave who had the misfortune…

Updated below. I keep seeing  announcement of various Association of American Law Schools sections calling for papers for panels at the 2014 meeting in New York City.  They're tacked up…

Who knows what this means, exactly, but for-profit Charleston School of Law has entered into a management agreement with InfiLaw.  Apparently InfiLaw just shelved plans for a 1300 student law…

There's been a lot of talk about the American Historical Association's recent statement advising that departments embargo the on-line publication of dissertations for six years.  I completely understand the sentiments…

You know what we haven't had here in a long time?  A statue trivia question.  So I've reached into my files and found one from a while back. Who and…

I've been blogging a bunch of late about my paper on the Nat Turner trials.  The paper is largely concerned with the trials in the wake of the rebellion and ...

SLU President, Rev. Lawrence Biondi, has delivered pay raises to his faculty.  That's good news - if you aren't one of his critics.  According to the Chronicle of Higher Ed,…

Last spring I blogged some about jurisprudence in Django Unchained and other parts of the movie that related to law (like the missing duel scene and the echoes of Harriet Beecher…

Over at Leiter, Michael Simkovic - co-author (with Frank McIntyre) of the article The Economic Value of a Law Degree - is doing some in-depth blogging on his article, the  methodology,…