Month: June 2015

Dean Hannah Arterian, who has led Syracuse Law for thirteen years, will step down in August.  During the school's search for a new dean, Professor William Banks will serve in…

I want to talk about a foreword that Karl Llewellyn wrote for a brief that Charles Hamilton Houston and two other lawyers put together to urge the federal prosecution of ...

The news that Sweet Briar has survived to educate another day inspires me to post a banner from their campus, "You will change the world."  A small but highly, highly…

Following up on my posts on the New York Times report that Karl Llewellyn's students thought he gave an unduly difficult exam (a claim that I want to talk more…

No, not that one. I am working on a longer project about how to test the accuracy of ethnographies, and I decided to begin my new summer reading list with…

Soon I'll be talking about Karl Llewellyn's stand against lynching -- a short but revealing foreword he wrote to an NAACP brief urging the federal prosecution of lynchers in Tuscaloosa,…

As I'm working on a short paper on a long-lost Karl Llewellyn work -- it's two paragraphs long,  but wow does it have the classic Llewellyn style -- I've been…

On June 3, I requested a copy of Alice Goffman's dissertation from the American Sociological Association, which had given her its "best dissertation" award for 2011.  As of my most…

This just in: The University of Michigan Law School seeks applicants for the position of Director of Academic and Legal Writing Support. This is a full-time, two-year appointment as a…

From the editors of the Akron Law Review... Akron Law Review Summer Submission And Fast-Track Review  The Akron Law Review is excited to announce that it is implementing a Summer…