Month: June 2020

President Donald Trump recently threatened to interfere with several states in their attempts to control the protests associated with the George Floyd murder. Trump’s edict, filled with hyperbolic language, photo…

Dean Christian Johnson of Widener University Commonwealth Law School has announced he will step down at the end of June.  He has been with Widener for five years and was…

Richmond, Birmingham, and Mobile are removing (or had already moved) Civil War monuments.  Confederate General William Carter Wickham -- who wanted to stay in the Union on 1861 and was…

I had the below essay last week on Social Science Space: The Virtue of Checking Documentation: You Never Know What You Will Find Published on June 3, 2020  In The Great ...

The following is a guest post from Ediberto Roman, Professor of Law & Director of Immigration and Citizenship Initiatives, Florida International University; Editor, Citizenship and Migration in the Americas Series,…

"Statesboro Blues" was written and recorded by Blind Willie McTell in 1928. It has since been covered many times by blues, rock, and country artists. Audio only Neither blues, nor ...

The University of Wisconsin Law School announced that its new dean will be Daniel Tokaji.  Tokaji, who holds a JD from Yale, is the associate dean for faculty at Ohio…

Posted at the request of the AALS: AALS Faculty Focus Webinars for Early Career Faculty AALS is launching a webinar series, Faculty Focus, to address some of the challenges brought…

No. No it is not. No matter what certain psychiatrists have opined. David Tuller and I have an essay on Medical Humanities -- titled "The concept of ‘illness without disease’ impedes understanding…

This just in: The University of Toronto is conducting an extensive international search for the position of Dean of the Faculty of Law, and invites expressions of interest, nominations, and…