Month: December 2013

Our friends in Fayetteville pass along the following hiring announcement: Arkansas Law has an opening for a criminal law clinician at the rank of assistant or associate professor starting Fall…

Nick Allard offers six predictions  about law schools, and the legal profession, for the year 2014.  One of them is that 20 schools will have larger classes in 2014 than…

I've already written about some of the books I'm looking forward to reading this spring, such as Robert Ferguson's Inferno: Anatomy of American Punishment and John W. Compton's The Evangelical Origins of…

I've been following the story for a while of a Confederate statue in downtown Reidsville, which was knocked over in a car accident in November 2011.  Well, ... there's now…

Thanks to  Gerry Beyer's wills, trusts, and estates blog I see that a legislator in California has set up a wiki to "allow citizens 'to draft a piece of legislation…

For some reason I keep thinking about Robin Williams' line from the movie Good Will Hunting when I think about dean searches lately ... "You're not perfect. And let me…

I want to turn to one of Henry Louis Gates' early articles, "Reading, Writing, and Difference," which appeared in the Mississippi College Law Review nearly thirty years ago, back in 1984.  (And…

From the Southern Intellectual History Circle's Facebook page come details of their 26th Annual Meeting 20-22 February 2014.  It will be at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the University of…

Just in time for the start of my spring trusts and estates class comes this entertaining article in the Crimson on ten unusual bequests to Harvard.  They run the spectrum from…

Via Al Roth, The Alliance For Paired Donation, a pioneering organization in Non-simultaneous Extended Altruistic Donor Chains (NEAD Chains), which is chaired by Organs & Inducements participant and University of…