Month: October 2015

Jill Fraley of Washington and Lee University has recently posted a long and exciting article with a short title, "Waste Law," on ssrn.  Cribbing now from the abstract:  The history…

The George Washington University Law School is now accepting applications for the 2016-2018 Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property Fellowship.   The Marks Fellowship is designed to assist attorneys who are…

Ben Carson isn't the only person claiming that individual gun ownership could have made a difference during the Holocaust.  A few days ago at the Volokh Conspiracy, David Kopel wrote…

Michelle Anderson, Dean at CUNY Law since 2006, has announced her decision to step down as dean at the end of this academic year.  Here is an excerpt from her…

Yesterday CSPAN broadcast a terrific discussion about the Dred Scott case with law professors Chris Bracey of GW and Martha Jones of the University of Michigan.  In case you missed…

It's my pleasure to announce that Bob Strassfeld of Case-Western University's law school is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Bob is well-known in…

Last August I posted an announcement from the First Amendment Law Review (FALR) here at the University of North Carolina School of Law for submissions for brief but engaging articles related to free…

Law professors complain for good reason about law reviews:  the short submission windows are ridiculous; editorial boards are always inexperienced; acceptances are skewed by letterhead bias; the actual edits are…

Over at prawfs, Howard Wasserman has beaten me to the announcement of Lisa McElroy's novel, Called On, which was published on Friday.  Cribbing now from the description: Libby Behl and Connie Shun…

I've just received the shocking news that Oklahoma historian Lee Roy Chapman has passed away at age 46.  Lee Roy lived and worked in Tulsa and his writings often concerned…