Month: October 2017

From an email message which I received this week: Ave Maria School of Law seeks applicants for a tenure-track position to begin in the 2018-2019 academic year. The school's greatest curricular needs…

One of the more interesting revelations to come out of the recent indictments by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is that Paul Manafort managed to spend over $1,000,000 on antique rugs at…

Every once in a blue moon I ask whether a house is haunted or not. Generally the verdict is a big yes.  I'm guessing the one at right is haunted…

The University of Arkansas invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the School of Law. The Dean serves as the chief academic and administrative officer of the…

A special report by Reuters details (here) how a journalist was able to buy a spine and two human heads after exchanging just a few emails with a representative of…

   

The first review of Interrogating Ethnography has been published in Contexts, which is the membership journal of the American Sociological Association. Here is the opening paragraph: Contexts, Fall 2017, Volume…

Today is the 136th anniversary of the Gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.  Although the shootout is legendary, it is less well known that Wyatt Earp and…

In 1897, a group of Jewish socialists founded the daily Forverts, which eventually became the most widely read Yiddish language newspaper in the U.S., with a circulation of over 250,000.  As…

It’s okay for clients to blame lawyers for life’s complexities, especially when prenups are involved, as I explain in today's Chicago Tribune: October 23, 2017 The first thing we do,…