Month: July 2017

Today is the 105th anniversary of the birth of Woodrow Wilson Guthrie.  (It was once common to name children after sitting presidents, but I suspect it was fairly unusual to…

Following up on the last trivia question about a school (and later an African American church) on park land, the house at right is part of a park that is…

Michigan State University College of Law seeks to hire a tenured or tenure-track faculty member to serve as Director of the College’s nationally recognized Legal RnD program. The successful candidate…

From colleagues at Ohio State: Clinical Faculty PositionThe Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law Description: The Moritz College of Law invites applications for the position of Assistant…

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) was established in the UK by academic journal editors, and it now has members around the world.  Among other activities, COPE publishes an extensive…

From colleagues at UNLV: UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS—WILLIAM S. BOYD SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for tenure-track Associate Professors or tenured full Professors of Law. UNLV Law, one of…

Amelia Earhart is much in the news lately, including this oped in today's New York Times. Here is the recently discovered photo: And let's not forget:  

Because of a series of transitions in my life -- especially I suppose moving from UNC to Alabama -- I've been thinking about transitions a lot more in recent months…

It's my pleasure to say that Brian Frye of the University of Kentucky's law school is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Professor Frye…

When I woke up on Thursday I thought -- to the extent I thought about it at all -- that I would be in Chapel Hill that evening. However, I…