Month: September 2015

From an email message which I recently received: Boston College Law School invites applications for full-time Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing faculty to teach Law Practice I and Law Practice…

I recently came across this 1927  recording of Vernon Dahlhart's "Little Mary Phagan."  Many readers will recognize Mary Phagan as the name of a young girl who was murdered in an…

Oh no, not this hoary old chestnut again.... Yes, indeed. I've been musing about recording classes since a student asked me for the first time in a long while why…

Andre L. Smith (Widener) has just published a new book, Tax Law and Racial and Economic Justice: Black Tax.  Here is the publisher's description: No study of Black people in…

Cari Romm has a great article in The Atlantic, The Life of a Professional Guinea Pig: What It’s Like To Earn A Living As A Research Subject In Clinical Trials. …

The North Carolina Law Review is hosting a symposium at the end of this week, "Celebrating 800 Years of Magna Carta."  The line-up is as follows: Thursday Dinner SpeakersRepresentative Paul…

The "Colored Hero" of Harper's Ferry was recently featured on two websites. The Page 99 Test derives its name from a quote by Ford Maddox Ford:  "Open the book to…

Andrew Strauss, the dean of the University of Dayton, sends along news that there is a memorial service today at the University for Dennis Greene.   Professor Greene is known…

From an email message forwarded to me in recent days: Assistant Professor of Law ~ Position Announcement The University of Dayton School of Law seeks applicants for a tenure-track faculty…

Following on Michelle Meyer's lead, I had the pleasure  of talking with Joseph Miller and Christian Turner for the Oral Argument Podcast.  I'm always astonished at the extraordinary breadth of…