Month: April 2020

   

Now that Law & Society has announced it is going to a virtual conference, many people are pulling out because they do not want to pay $250 to $390 to…

This matzah cover was embroidered by my great-grandmother Sarah Mermelshtayn in 1902, shortly before she married my great-grandfather Boruch Levitt in Odessa. We found it last month, folded in a…

Now that Barry Currier has stepped down as Managing Director of the ABA's Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, and Bill Adams has been promoted to take…

Traditionally, a valid will must be: (1) in writing; (2) signed by the testator (or in the testator's name by another at the testator's request and in the testator's conscious…

In the excellent Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote, by my old friend Ellen Dubois, I learned that Illinois passed the first “presidential suffrage” statute in 1912, allowing women…

I have previously lamented (here) SSRN’s arbitrary determination of “scholarly” merit. SSRN has inconsistent and unevenly applied rules for what does (and does not) qualify as a “scholarly paper.” That’s…

From colleagues at SLU:   The Saint Louis University Law Journal is proud to announce the twenty-second installment of the Journal’s Teaching series, Teaching Law Online.   The Journal created…

Hosted for most of its run by Roy Clark and Buck Owens, Hee Haw was televised from 1969-1993. Situated in fictional Kornfield Kounty, the show featured the outstanding country music artists ...

I am a huge fan of the Law & Society Association, an interdisciplinary group of scholars from all fields.  The annual meeting has a welcoming and encouraging atmosphere.  I’ve been…