Month: June 2014

I'm sitting here reading some early twentieth century literature for a paper on the eugenics movement in North Carolina and, well, holy smokes.  I want to talk soon about a…

Dean Michael M. Martin, who has been leading Fordham Law School since 2010 (the first year as interim dean) will be stepping down at the end of the 2014-15 school…

This just in: Saint Louis University Law  is seeking applicants for a full-time Health Law and Policy Fellow and Instructor in the Center for Health Law Studies. The position is…

In keeping with a couple of posts I've put up -- one about a business partner who put up a stone monument in Richmond's Shockoe Hill Cemetery and another in…

That's essentially what George Stephanapoulos asked Justice Sotomayor on today's This Week.  Here is a partial transcript: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You also write in your book about some of the sexism…

I see that Susanne Buckley-Zistel of the Center for Conflict Studies and Stefanie Schaefer, a research fellow at the Irmgard Coninx Foundation, have the introduction to their book Memorials in Times of Transition up…

I didn't realize until recently that there were any Civil War era prisons still standing; I guess I have to say that I hadn't given that a lot of thought…

I've been talking a lot of late about the resurgence of literature on reparations.  And next week I hope to have a working draft of a paper on North Carolina's…

The American Bar Association has officially approved Penn State's application to split its law school into two schools.  The State College campus will continue to use the Penn State name.…

Given all the talk about the U.S. News law school rankings I've been thinking for a while that I wanted to look at how a ranking of law schools based…