Month: June 2017

We share the sadness of our colleagues throughout the legal academy in the passing of iconic Berkeley Law Professor Herma Hill Kay.   Cribbing now from Berkeley Law's memorial notice:…

I'm pleased to report that the June 2017 issue of the American Journal of Legal History is up on AJLH's website. The hard copies should be arriving in subscribers' mailboxes…

The Journal of Health Psychology has just posted my response to the defenders of the PACE trial.  Here is the abstract: In defense of the PACE trial, Petrie and Weinman…

This ranking of presidents from worst to best, as voted by 91 historians, has been posted by CBS News.  As usual, the top three are Lincoln, Washington, and FDR, in…

On Saturday I thought I'd take a break and go to the dedication of a new highway marker -- over east of here in Edgecombe County -- to the State…

Caroline Bruckner, an Executive in Residence, Department of Accounting and Taxation at the Kogood School of Business (American University), has published a report entitled Billion Dollar Blind Spot: How the U.S.…

From the mailbox: In the spirit of academic engagement and mentoring in the area of Equality Law, we (Tristin Green, University of San Francisco; Angela Onwuachi-Willig, UC Berkeley; and Leticia…

The Rehnquist Center is pleased to announce the inaugural National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars. The conference will be held at the Westward Look Resort in Tucson, Arizona, on March…

The New Rambler Review has posted my long-form review of Harold Evans's book Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters.  As many readers know, Evans in a near-legendary author…

As we enter the scholarship-producing season, I am thinking about my favorite one-liner of the past few years: "In science an important step forward can be finding a question that…