Month: October 2013

I'm excited to see that the Supreme Court granted cert in Brandt v. United States, 710 F.3d 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2013). More applied legal history in property law.... Among the things check…

Professors from the AALS Section on Minority Groups are circulating  this letter to the ABA regarding the proposed changes to tenure as part of the accreditation process.  They are interested in having…

When I was out in Oklahoma City last week I stopped by the state capitol grounds to do a little library work (for a piece on the lawsuits in the…

Dean, Law Center UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON Houston, Texas The University of Houston (UH) Law Center seeks a creative, dynamic, and ambitious leader with a track record of distinguished contributions to…

Following up on my Civil War monument trivia question from Bill Turnier a while back, here's another of Bill's photographs.  This one is of a house of a Civil War-era…

I've already mentioned the paper "A Critical Research Agenda for Wills, Trusts, and Estates," by Bridget Crawford and Tony Infanti, but I want to post their abstract: The law of…

We are pleased to welcome Sarah Burstein to the L0unge.  Sarah is an associate professor at the Oklahoma University College of Law.  She holds a JD from the University of…

Jeff Redding's already mentioned Anders Walker's paper "Bramble Bush Revisited: Karl Llewellyn, the Great Depression, and the First Law School Crisis, 1929-1939," but I want to include Anders' abstract: This…