Month: August 2015

(cross posted on Legal Ethics Forum) Elizabeth Mertz and I have had a lively exchange about studying the ethics of ethnography, which you can read at the New Legal Realism…

One of my projects these days is studying the cases  challenging racially restrictive covenants in Oklahoma City from the late 1920s to just after Shelley v. Kraemer.   This is…

Charleston Law, which has been in finance-related tumult for a while and was recently enjoined from firing a tenure faculty member, has now announced that it will not be offering…

My friend and NC neighbor Tanya Marsh, who is a professor at Wake Forest Law, has just published a treatise on The Law of Human Remains.  Marsh deals with five main categories: …

The First Amendment Law Review (FALR) at the University of North Carolina School of Law is currently accepting submissions for brief but engaging articles related to free speech in higher education.…

Well, the Nat Turner rebellion is back in the news because there's a move afoot in Southampton to change the name of "Blackhead Signpost Road."  I don't quite know what…

One of the topics that deeply interests me is how social movements translate their agendas into legal doctrine.  How, for instance, do claims for reparations interact with legal doctrine --…

The Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) invites paper proposals on the following topic. How do Indian Tribes, First Nations, and other…

I have just learned from Sean Patrick Donlan that long-time and beloved Stanford Law professor John Henry Merryman passed away.  He wrote extensively about art law.  I am most familiar work on…

From an email message that I received earlier today: The Faculty of Law at Queen’s University is inviting applications for the Allgood Professorship in Business Law.  Readers can find information…