Month: September 2014

This just in: The Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law is pleased to invite submissions for its fourth annual conference, to be held on April 16-17,…

Dean Patrick Hobbs will step down as the leader of Seton Hall School of Law, effective this coming May.  Hobbs has been dean since 1999.

The reporting is fuzzy, but a University of Illinois undergrad who met with U of I Chancellor Phyllis Wise and other administrators states that Steven Salaita's name has been forwarded…

Abolitionist lawyers in the antebellum era made a practice of representing fugitive slaves and rescuers in the North, but African-Americans had some access to courts even in the southern states.  ...

Well, we've rounded Labor Day, which means that summer's over and it's time to get down to talking scholarship.  Daniel Klerman of the University of Southern California has a characteristically terrific…

Celebrate by listening to the Weavers’ “Union Miners.”   On top of everything else, it is beautifully arranged:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rZVNCE9xtH4

I've been meaning to talk for some months about a monument in Hillsborough, North Carolina.  It's a monument mostly to the old state house and I guess Daniel Boone.  But…