Month: February 2014

The University of Missouri School of Law seeks proposals for a works-in-progress conference affiliated with a symposium that is being convened at the University of Missouri's Center for the Study…

Benjamin Remy Chabot and Mitu Gulati have posted "Santa Anna and His Black Eagle: The Origins of Pari Passu?" on srrn.  Cribbing now from their abstract: One of the most…

Patricia M. Muhammad, associate counsel at the City Board of School Commissioners, recently published "The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Legacy Establishing a case for International Reparations" in the Columbia Journal…

Been looking through the advertisements of recent and forthcoming books in the OAH Program and I see that Gary Gallagher's 2011 Lamar lectures at Mercer University came out last year from…

This request is from Eric Talley at Berkeley Law: As you may know, an ABA task force has recently proposed to establish minimum requirements within ABA-accredited law schools for "experiential"…

In a Post and Courier editorial, Robert Freer, a visting business professor at The Citadel, proposes that the City of Charleston purchase for-profit Charleston Law School.  InfiLaw, owner of three…

The Kansas City Star has a story up now entitled To Attract Students, Law Schools at KU and UMKC Engage in a Tuition Border War.   The University of Kansas…

I'm very much looking forward to reading Art of the American Frontier, which has just appeared from Yale University Press.  This accompanies an exhibit at the High Museum in Atlanta.  Cribbing…

Tanya Marsh, who teaches at Wake Forest Law School and is I believe the leading academic expert in the country on the law of cemeteries, has started the funeral law…

When I write about financial or business association regulation, I feel really lucky if someone is actually interested.  But I’ve largely come to accept that the bulk of my colleagues,…