Posts by Alfred Brophy

The latest on Moon Law, "A Legal Regime for the Mining of Helium-3 on the Moon: U.S. Policy Options," from Richard Bilder at Wisconsin.

The Houston Chronicle has a very nice story on native daughter Annette Gordon-Reed, who won the Pulitzer Prize in history and the National Book Award in non-fiction for The Hemingses…

We've just passed the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (it was October 16, 1859), so it's time for a post on Harpers Ferry....Back in the 1930s…

From the Crimson.

I have a couple of occasional series  --the law of people magazine, the "this is why...." series (as in this is why it's called the moonlight and magnolia school and…

The Boston Globe has the details.  The bill would study Massachusetts' connections to slavery.  Sounds pretty similar to Brown University's Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, which we've spoken about…

I've been most quiet of late because I'm recovering from a cold that threw me for a loop -- or maybe a couple of them.  But emerging from the silence…

My sometimes co-author Sarah Ludington has an important new paper, "The Dogs that Did Not Bark: Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Silence of the Legal Academy During World War II,"…

Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati,  Mirya R. Holman, and Eric A. Posner have a new article up on ssrn, "Judging Women."  Here's their abstract: Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s assertion that female judges…

The New York Times has an article on a new agreement between Daily Beast and Peasus Books, to create a new imprint, "Beast Books."  The idea is to have Daily…