Month: September 2013

A while back I blogged about a picture that Martha Jones took of two "dueling" monuments at the courthouse in Talbot County, Maryland. It was a Confederate Soldier versus Frederick…

Perhaps you were thinking: Maryland has suprisingly few law schools and Bowie State University doesn't have one.  That's a problem with an easy solution!  If so, you'll want to back…

Does spending a year at Princeton doing research in your favorite area of legal studies (while hanging out with similar folk) sound good to you?  LAPA will select up to…

Harvard Law Professor David Barron has been nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit by President Obama.  He is a Harvard Law grad and has served…

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Andrea Dennis of the University of Georgia law school has posted A Snitch in Time: An Historical Sketch of Black Informing During Slavery.  Cribbing now from her abstract: This article…

John Gordan's book The Fugitive Slave Rescue Trial of Robert Morris: Benjamin Robbins Curtis on the Road to Dred Scott is imminently forthcoming from Talbot Publishing, an imprint of the Law Book…

The American Bar Association Task Force on the Future of Legal Education issued a 38 page draft report last Friday.  It called for: 1.     Rethinking the current pricing scheme at…

Well, what can I say, the school board in Randolph County, North Carolina, has voted to remove the Invisible Man from their public school library.  School board member Gary Mason said,…

Well, I'm pretty much out of trivia questions, so I'm relying on my friends and colleagues.  Bill Turnier sends along this picture of a monument.  I've actually been to this…