Back in January, I wrote a post which was critical of the feeble attempts by the Chair (Justice Rebecca Berch) and Managing Director (Barry Currier) of the ABA Council of…
Dean JoAnne Epps, who has led Temple Law since 2008, has been nominated to become the new provost of Temple University. The appointment awaits approval of the Temple's board of…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has recently given extensive, and therefore controversial, interviews to both the Associated Press and the New York Times. In the Times, Justice Ginsburg commented on the…
Sarah Reis has a lengthy article up on ssrn, Deconstructing the Durham Statement: The Persistence of Print Prestige During the Age of Open Access, that argues for the shift from print to…
We sometimes come across coincidences in research that are simply fascinating, even if they are of no greater moment than that. My most recent interests have been the antebellum abolitionist…
Somehow I missed the story that Thomas M. Doerflinger had passed away suddenly last August. Long before writing about capitalism was cool, Doerflinger wrote an important book about the growth…
From an email message which I received earlier today: Suffolk University Law School in Boston invites applications for a position as a full-time Legal Practice Skills (LPS) Visiting Professor for…
The LSAC is now reporting that "As of 07/01/16, there are 344,194 applications submitted by 54,708 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 1.1% and applications are up…
The North Carolina Law Review symposium on Magna Carta is now up on the web. We have contributions by Paul Babie, Mary Bilder, Charles Donahue, Sally Hadden, Richard Helmholz, A.E. ...
I have an article in the current issue Humanities about Langston Hughes and a shawl he inherited that had purportedly been worn by one of John Brown’s men at Harpers Ferry. …