Month: September 2014

It seems curious today, but Christopher Columbus Langdell viewed his method of teaching law as intensely practical. He had, after all, practiced for what today seems a long time, fifteen ...

One of the last pieces of the puzzle that I'm working on for University, Court, and Slave -- I hope, actually, the very last piece -- is adding something on the…

One of the greatest trial lawyers of the Nineteenth Century was Daniel W. Voorhees, who first rose to prominence when he defended one of John Brown’s raiders.  Although he was ...

From our friends to the north:  The University of Calgary is looking to make faculty appointments.  Calgary is in a period of institutional growth.  Nine new faculty appointments have been…

Next Friday and Saturday Savannah Law School will host a symposium on progressive property that celebrates the opening of their new building -- the renovated Candler Hospital, which dates back ...

Next Friday, September 19, the Michigan Journal of Race and Law will host a symposium celebrating the journal's twenty years.  Cribbing from the announcement: We will look back at the Journal and its ...

Bumping to front to remind interested readers of 9/15/14 deadline. The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project seeks contributors of revised opinions and commentary for an edited collection entitled Feminist Judgments: Rewritten…

The trustees of the University of Illinois have voted 8-1 against providing Steven Salaita a tenured appointment in the department of American Indian Studies.  As I have written before (here ...

An eminent member of the bar, carrying all the intellectual prestige of one who has led a venerated Ivy League institution, trained in the time when lawyer-statesmen walked the earth ...

Dear colleagues, We invite you to attend the conference on “Improving Risk Regulation:  From Crisis Response to Learning and Innovation,” to be held in Paris on 13-14 October.  The latest…