Posts by Alfred Brophy

Alan Brinkley has passed away.  Columbia University has lost a very distinguished professor of history. The HNN has a memorial notice.

University of Detroit Mercy School of Law seeks a proven or aspiring scholar and teacher with an interest in teaching first-year Property Law for a tenured or tenure-track position beginning…

This is to introduce a new, free, online resource on the gig economy: a bibliography containing both academic andacademic materials that’s largely but not exclusively geared toward labor & employment law.…

Richard Wirtz  has passed on January 3, 2019.  He was dean of the University of Tennessee from 1991 to 1998.  He was graduated from Amherst, Princeton University, and Standford Law…

Francis Daniel Pastorius is coming to a bookstore close to you (The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader: Writings by an Early American Polymath). Pastorius is from the late seventeenth and early…

Asher Durand’s Progress is now in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.  Previously, Progress was in the private collection of Jack Warner of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  There is a story about in the Richmond…

Job Description Summary Wake Forest University School of Law seeks a Professor of the Practice to teach courses in Professional Responsibility.   Job Description  Interested applicants should possess a J.D. ...

It is great saddeness, Gordon Hylton has died.  He was a great guy — and a phenomal academic career. He had a distinguished legal academy, first Chicago Kent, then to…

The University has released Commission on Institional History and Community.

We are now soliciting applications for our next dean. We’ve set up a website with all of the necessary information: https://lawdeansearch.utah.edu/.