Faculty Hiring: Yale

From an email message which I received earlier today: Yale Law School invites applications for a full-time faculty director of clinical courses in the area of environmental law and policy.…

Calvin Massey

I'm very sad to report that Calvin Massey, my friend and mentor -- and one of the founding bloggers here -- has passed away.  Calvin was most recently the Daniel…

The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue

I have an article on Slate today about the Oberlin-Wellington fugitive slave rescue of 1858, which you can read here. It is excerpted from my 2010 book, Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers,…

Texas Pledge of Allegiance

The always interesting Josh Blackman has posted a rough transcript of Justice Alito's recent appearance at a Federalist Society conference in Texas.  The introductory paragraph caught my eye: After the American…

Faculty Hiring: Campbell

CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position as Director of Legal Research and Writing to commence in the Fall Semester 2016.  The successful applicant…

American Journal of Legal History

I am pleased to announce that Stefan Vogenauer of the Max Planck Institute and I are starting co-editing the American Journal of Legal History.  Roman Hoyos of Southwestern Law is…

LSU Law Dean Search

This just in from Lee Ann Lockridge: The Louisiana State University Law Center is engaged in a dean search this year. The search website, which includes a link to the online…