Month: November 2015

I'm proud to report that Kasi Wahlers of UNC Law's class of 2017 has posted a note that's forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review on the North Carolina Cultural History Artifact Management…

Joint Scholars & Scholarship Workshop on Feminist Jurisprudence 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Skadden Conference Center, Fordham Law School Sponsored by the Legal Writing Institute (LWI),…

I want to talk about Amna Akbar's new article "Law's Exposure: The Movement and the Legal Academy," which deals with the legal ideas of the Black Lives Matter movement.  Cribbing…

The Jotwell empire continues to expand.  Today they're adding a section on property.  Cribbing now from their announcement:  Today we inaugurate a new Jotwell section on Property, edited by Donald J. Kochan,…

The Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary is looking to make appointments at all ranks, and across a wide variety of areas. Since 2011, the Faculty has appointed…

We are honored to be on the ABA Journal's ninth annual list of their 100 legal blawgs. The process by which the ABA Journal chooses their list is a mystery…

This just in from Professor Richard Albert: Symposium on Founding Moments in ConstitutionalismYale Law School, April 15-16, 2016 Founding moments are landmark events that break ties with the ancien regime ...

Some readers may recall my disagreement with certain social scientists about the validity of using police reports (and similar documentation) as sources to fact-check ethnography.  To put it succinctly, some…

On November 4, Duquesne University announced that Duquesne Law Dean Kenneth G. Gormley would become the university's new president.   Prior to assuming his new role on July 1, 2016,…

It seems as though the discussion of race on college campuses is not slowing down.  Last week we had a town hall at UNC, moderated by Clarence Page.  This morning's…