Month: August 2013

This is a story I've been following for a while: some people in Tulsa would like to change the name of Brady Street because Tate Brady, for whom the street…

A poem about slavery written by the country's first published African-American writer, Jupiter Hammon, who was himself a slave, has been discovered by a University of Texas at Arlington doctoral student. …

In the aftermath of Charleston School of Law entering a management agreement with InfiLaw, news is bubbling out of South Carolina suggesting that two public universities - the College of…

GW Law is currently accepting applications for the Marks IP Fellowship for 2014-2016.  Here are the details (from an email I received earlier today): The Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property…

Last week, the Times published a piece congratulating Brooklyn Judge Patricia DiMango for bringingher "brash style and forceful personality, not to mention her relentless efficiency" to the Bronx.  The Times…

Mark Brandon's new book, State of Union: Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order, will be out next month from the University Press of Kansas.  Mark is perhaps best ...

I've expressed surprise before about how pre-Civil War visions of federalism crop up in 21st century opinions.  And I had that same reaction when I heard Chief Justice Roberts referring…

I'm reaching for a pretty obscure one here.  What and where?  I'm guessing it's not making this one too easy by saying that I wrote about the person who once…

This  came in from our colleagues at Toledo. THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO COLLEGE OF LAW expects to fill one tenure-track position. Applications from entry-level and experienced candidates in a variety…

In this series of posts, I’ve been detailing some of the ways in which the gender undertones of the Yellen-versus-Summers-for-fed-chair debate resemble discussions we've heard about corporate board diversity.  In…