Month: December 2016

From Howard Wasserman comes this announcement: PrawfsBlawg is sponsoring the annual MarkelFest! Happy Hour at AALS. It will be at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, January 4, at Romper Room, 25…

To be held at Albany Law School on February 3 and 4, per this announcement from Sarah Rogerson: Hoping to publish a law review article in the new year? Resolved…

I am very sorry to hear (via Karin Wulf's twitter feed) that the distinguished historian Joyce Appleby has passed away.  Dr. Appleby was a professor emerita at UCLA -- and…

In a positive development for legal scholarship, the Northwestern University Law Review will accept "exclusive submissions" from now through January 28, 2017.  Authors are guaranteed a response by February 17,…

During my series of posts last year on Alice Goffman's On the Run, I attempted to obtain a copy of her dissertation in the hope that it might clear up a…

Today being Christmas, my wife and I of course went to see a movie (we skipped the Chinese restaurant, however, in favor of dinner at home).  The film we chose…

I'm pleased to report that the December 2016 issue of the American Journal of Legal History is out -- and for a limited time, the entire issue is ungated at Oxford…

By now, TFL readers are surely aware of the DOE's action to block Charlotte School of Law from receiving federal students loans. The latest development in this saga is this…

I strongly recommend Bryan Garner's Usage Tip of the Day, which is almost invariably interesting and sometimes quite helpful.  Now and then, however, he seems to be straining the definition…

It was a bad idea, so let's hope that it is not reintroduced in the next session.