Month: February 2018

Readers may recall an incident last summer when Fresno State University temporarily suspended its search for the Edward Said Professorship of Middle East Studies.  Within days, the decision was blamed ...

Distinguished historian of the Civil Rights era (and the magisterial Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama) David Garrow had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal “Democrats and FBI…

Jen Kreder has a put up a couple of interesting posts at PrawfsBlawg (here and here) about reasons to write books instead of law review articles.  Here are some additional…

Willie Nelson:  Hank Williams (live audio):  Roy Acuff and Melba Montgomery:  Shania Twain and Willie Nelson: Vince Gill: Elvis:   

My University of Alabama Law colleague Mirit Eyal-Cohen is hosting the 12th annual retreat of the Law and Entrepreneurship meeting today in Tuscaloosa.  The full program is here. It’s good…

Phil McConnaughay sends along the exciting news that Carla Pratt of Penn State Dickinson law has just been named dean at Washburn Law School.  Congratulations to Dean Pratt and Washburn!

The University of Richmond School of Law invites submissions for the second annual Mid-Atlantic Junior Faculty Forum. This workshop will be held on Wednesday, May 16 and Thursday, May 17,…

The following is a guest post by my friend Peter Karsten of the University of Pittsburgh’s history department. The fate of nearly 800,000 DACA individuals in the US might be ...

Here is the announcement: The Northwestern University Law Review is pleased to announce its first annual issue dedicated to empirical legal scholarship, to be published in spring 2019. We welcome pieces making use of…

I regret to announce that on February 3, 2018, my father, Arthur Frakt, a retired law professor and law school administrator, died peacefully at his home in Alta, Wyoming. He…