Month: February 2014

My colleague Dana Remus has an essay on the deregulation of the legal profession, "Hemispheres Apart, a Profession Connected," up on ssrn.  Cribbing now from her abstract:  In recent years,…

Well, it's snowing today in Chapel Hill -- coming down like I haven't ever seen before south of the Mason-Dixon line in the, geeze, I guess more than 20 years…

If it weren't snowing here (and hence we have a snow day--or rather snow afternoon, as I taught property this morning) I would have taught In re Strittmater this afternoon.  In place…

Professor Martha Jones of the University of Michigan law school and history department has an essay on CNN, "Biracial and Also Black," that I think you will enjoy a great…

Former Georgetown Law Dean Judith Areen has been named the seventh president of the Association of American Law Schools.  Areen led Georgetown's law school from 1989 to 2004 (and served…

Following up on my post on Sarah Roth's Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture that's coming out from Cambridge shortly I want to talk about another book from CUP that…

The LSAC reports that "As of 2/7/14, there are 227,912 fall 2014 applications submitted by 32,532 applicants. Applicants are down 11.1% and applications are down 12.2% from 2013.  Last year…

I'm very sad to report that Professor Andrew Eric Taslitz of American University (where he moved in 2012 after a long career at Howard University) passed away this weekend after a…

I was reading Justice Scalia's dissent in Windsor the other night and came across a statement that was wrong in regard to whether the Court had decided a previous case in which…

I'm very pleased to see from this Tuscaloosa News article that the University of Alabama's Gorgas Library has an exhibit about the University's connections to slavery.  The exhibit presents the…