Posts by Alfred Brophy

Time for some fun and photographs.  Following up on the occasional series from last spring on pictures of antebellum law schools -- Princeton (yes! they once had a law school)…

From H-Law comes the news that this year has seen the close of the life of another great American historian, Merrill Peterson.  He was an emeritus professor at the University…

We've been talking for a long time about the declining fortunes of academic presses (OUP and CUP had layoffs at the beginning of the year; YUP laid off  staff later…

Gary Rosin has a new post, "Do We Need More Law Schools," up at Law by the Numbers, which charts the growth in the number of law schools from the…

My colleague Richard Myers will be serving as a judge in the first trial ever conducted  one of the first trials ever conducted (thanks to comments for setting the record…

One of my most favorite works of history, the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice's Report, begins with a very elegant line: "Let us begin with a clock."…

 Following up on my post yesterday about the 35 student-edited general interest law reviews in ISI's Social Sciences Citation Index -- and a few anomalies in there, I thought I'd…

We wrote a little bit about Justice Souter when he left DC at the end of last term and his plans for doing some cool things, like writing a history…

As I'm working up some thoughts on the use of the social sciences citation index as a companion to westlaw citation searches, I've been looking a little at the journals…

The University of Richmond has begun a search for the E. Claiborne  Robins Chair in their law school.  The field is open.  From the announcement:The University of Richmond School of…