Month: June 2016

Rachel Swarns has a terrific story at the New York Times about Georgetown's president, John J. DeGioia, meeting yesterday with a descendants of slaves owned by the Jesuits and sold in…

I'm putting Aaron Wunsch's and Joseph E.B. Elliott's forthcoming book Palazzos of Power: Central Stations of the Philadelphia Electric Company, 1900-1930 on my reading list for the fall.  Cribbing now from Princeton…

Here is the video of Billy Crystal's eulogy at Muhammad Ali's funeral, describing their association of over forty years:     To me, the section beginning here was especially meaningful,…

Taisu Zhang -- lately my neighbor over at Duke Law and now at Yale Law -- has a new article up on ssrn, Cultural Paradigms in Property Institutions.  I think…

I hope that everyone is in the midst of a productive summer.  I've collected a few more courthouse pictures over the past year, so maybe it's time to work through…

The Supreme Court today decided Williams v. Pennsylvania, reversing the defendant's death penalty on the ground that the Chief Justice of Pennsylvania had erroneously denied a recusal motion in a…

William and Mary's 13th annual Brigham-Kanner property rights conference will be this October 19-21 in the Hague.  The honoree is Peruvian economist and public intellectual Hernando de Soto.   The program…

The LSAC is now reporting that "As of 06/03/16, there are 338,649 applications submitted by 53,167 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 1.4% and applications are up…

Now that both major parties have settled on their presumptive nominees, most liberal angst has been focused on the possibility of a Donald Trump victory in November.  Historian Rob Baker…

Mary Lu Bilek has been named the Dean at CUNY School of Law.  CUNY's announcement is here.