Month: October 2018

[Note to Chicago old-timers: be sure to check out the bottom clip] Mississippi John Hurt (with Pete Seeger watching) The Carter Sisters   Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie   Joan Baez (in ...

I just did a short and fun podcast with Brian Frye (University of Kentucky College of Law) about repugnant markets ranging from kidneys to football, boxing, sex, and blood.  You can…

I am a signatory to the following statement, protesting Israel's denial of a student visa to Lara Alqasem: DENIED ENTRY We the undersigned members of the Alliance for Academic Freedom…

Twitter law prof talk on Trump and taxes has been robust in the wake of publication by the October 2, 2018 publication by the New York Times of an extensive…

This just in: We are pleased to announce 2019 Thurgood Marshall Law Review and American Constitutional Society Symposium on “The Renewed Civil Rights Movement.”Thurgood Marshall Law School was founded on…

Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was convicted last Friday of second degree murder for shooting and killing Laquan McDonald in 2014. Reports of the incident were filed by McDonald ...

The co-founder, songwriter, and vocalist for Jefferson Airplane (and later with Jefferson Starship) died last week at 76. You can see him in this clip, to the left of Grace ...

 Chicago blues musician Otis Rush passed away last week.  

As I posted here last week, Prof. John Cheney-Lippold, of the University of Michigan, belatedly rescinded his commitment to write a study-abroad reference for one of his students, once he ...

This just in: Washington University School of Law invites applications for the faculty position of Director of its new First Amendment Clinic. The Clinic will join the other 18 law…