Month: August 2015

(cross posted on Legal Ethics Forum) The MD Anderson Cancer Center, at the University of Texas, has been running television commercials in Chicago (and I presume elsewhere) for the past few months.  MD…

This just in: The AALS Section on Legislation & Law of the Political Process is pleased to announce that it will host a “New Voices in Legislation” program during the…

Elizabeth Troutman and I have a paper up at ssrn on the North Carolina eugenics movement.  This was inspired by the North Carolina legislature's compensation program, but what we're really ...

We have a good idea of what the  #BlackLivesMatter agenda regarding criminal justice looks like.   Though, as I speculated in a previous post, there's a lot to flesh out about…

My friend Brando Starkey, who's a staff writer for ESPN's "The Undefeated," has a powerful piece about "Katrina and Better Black Lives" up on the ESPN website.  Long-time faculty lounge…

I'm pleased to announce that John Haskell, who teaches at Mississippi College School of Law, is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for a spell.  John teaches in…

One of the more disappointing responses to the recent critique of Alice Goffman’s On the Run comes from Prof. Paul Stoller, a highly regarded ethnographer at West Chester University.   Writing ...

The University of Michigan's legal history workshop has the following schedule for fall 2015.  All sessions meet in Law School, 0220 South Hall, unless otherwise noted. Guests can obtain the readings…

I'm pleased to announce the schedule for triangle legal history for the coming academic year.  All of the sessions will be at the National Humanities Center, except the December 4…

After the jump, I'm posting  the search announcement for the new Dean of Penn State Law (that is, the State College campus) and Penn State School of International Affairs. The ...