Month: July 2014

From an email message that I received earlier today: The University of Montana School of Law, a school with a long-time emphasis on the integration of theory and practice, beautifully situated in the…

In August 1825 a ten year old African American child went looking for work along the Philadelphia waterfront. An African American man offered the child, Cornelius Sinclair, a small wage…

Very soon I'm going to be posting a paper I'm writing with Judson Crump about a freedom suit in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the 1820s.  Much to talk about there and…

I am writing to welcome Diane Curtis, senior lecturer in political science and director of pre-law planning at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to the faculty lounge.  She'll be sitting…

I'm delighted to report that the current issue of Law and Ethics of Human Rights, has a symposium on inter generational justice.  The papers look terrific. Here is the table…

From an email message that I received in recent days: The UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW, Fayetteville, seeks to fill one tenure-track position to begin in the 2015-2016 academic year at…

As others have now acknowledged, our friend and colleague Dan Markel, of Florida State Law,  died today.  More details, and a remembrance, are appropriately found at his blawg.  Few, if…

The AALS Sections on Aging and the Law and on Law, Medicine, and Health Care are sponsoring a joint program at the January 2015 Annual Meeting. The program will consider…

University of Dayton School of Law Dean Paul McGreal will step down at the end of the 2014-15 school year.  He joined the law school as dean in 2011.  

I've been meaning to talk for a while about Steven J. Horowitz and Rob Sitkoff's exciting new article on "unconstitutional perpetual trusts," which is forthcoming shortly in the Vanderbilt Law…