Month: June 2015

Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign memoir, just published today, includes a charming vignette about playing tennis with Chief Justice Rehnquist during his clerkship.  Says Cruz, “it was a required part of…

Estate Planning In the 21st Century:  Seismic Shifts and Predictions for the Future The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel announces a Call For Papers on the following topics:…

Eric S. Lander, a scientist on the Human Genome Project and professor at Harvard, gave a moving speech on The Moth Radio Hour's segment on "Why I teach" this past…

I have a new paper on ranking law schools with LSAT scores, employment outcomes, and law review citations.  This builds on the paper that I workshopped here at the faculty ...

Thinking on Joan Baez and Virgil Cain and his Danville Railroad got me to thinking about a trip I made a while back to Danville.  I went up there to…

Earlier this week -- before the landslide against Confederate flags -- a local town council voted to keep the name "Confederate Memorial" on the building at right.  So I have…

Now that the Confederate flag is coming down -- cue Joan Baez -- I guess it's time for a Confederate Memorial trivia question.  We haven't had one of those in…

Acting through an intermediary whom I know she respects, I requested a copy of the dissertation from Prof. Goffman herself.  Unfortunately, she “did not authorize” access, although I have been…

Does that mean George W. Bush is really just SCOTUSPOTUS? H/T to my amazing wife and colleague, Chapin Cimino.

The University of New Mexico School of Law has announced that it will take the road less traveled, and will be led by co-deans.  UNM Professors Alfred Mathewson and Sergio Pareja…