Month: May 2017

About this time 96 years ago today crowds were gathering in Tulsa and talking about Dick Rowland's alleged attack on Mary Paige in an elevator in downtown Tulsa the day…

According to Prof. Vida Samiian, unacceptable outside pressure recently led to Fresno State University’s suspension of its search to fill the Edward Said Professorship of Middle East Studies.  Prof. Samiian…

The Academic Engagement Network -- an anti-BDS organization of which I am a member -- issued the following statement regarding protests over Linda Sarsour's commencement address at CUNY: Academic Engagement…

This just in: Due to the departure of an associate dean to assume a deanship, The John Marshall Law School seeks a one-semester, full-time podium visitor to teach Contracts I and…

Here are the first and last paragraphs (citations omitted): John Brown's body may lie moldering in the grave, but the militant abolitionist and his October 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry…

Earlier this week, I had the honor of participating in a Lambda Literary Award finalist reading in Los Angeles.  The Lambdas (or more colloquially, “The Lammys”) are considered the preeminent book…

From colleagues at Emory: There is a widespread perception that we live in a moment of change that is unprecedented in its scope and pace. Climate change, mass movements of…

Several decades ago, an American client asked me to help recruit some British barristers for an international project.  I flew to London and met in chambers with a QC and…

New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu explains why they had to go:  

The AALS Sections on Constitutional Law and Legal History invite paper submissions to participate in our joint program, “Reconstruction: The Second Founding,” at the 2018 AALS Annual Meeting on January…