Posts by Alfred Brophy

Randall Bezanson and Andrew Finkelman have posted a most creative work, "Trespassory Art," on ssrn.  In short they argue for an expansion of the rights of artists to trespass on…

Just back in the office briefly after a trip to Philadelphia.  Couple of really cool things to share right now, before my trip down to lovely Athens tomorrow for a…

Since I'm recycling posts from years and years ago--like "who owns American folk culture?  Parker Brothers, apparently"--and also thinking about issues of cultural property again, I thought I'd blow some…

I've spent some time over the last few weeks talking about the new paper Stephen Davis and I have up on probate in the Old South.  Now I think it's…

Scott Dodson is moving from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, to William and Mary this summer.  From the W&M Press release:Dodson received a B.A. from Rice University and a J.D.…

Resurfacing from work to mention a really great post over at legalhistoryblog.... At some point I need to talk about Mark Weiner's great books (like Black Trials) on race and…

Now that I've written a little bit about the paper Stephen Davis and I have  on antebellum trusts and estates -- and especially on the context of Greene County, Alabama, …

The final installment of Melissa Jacoby's and Mirya Holman's guest posting on their new article:Today we’ll finish talking about our paper on medical bills and bankruptcy (our first post featured…

I told myself that I was going on a blogging diet -- no more posting (other than posts that are already written -- like my series on probate in the…

Continuing in the series that Melissa Jacoby and Mirya Holman are writing on their recent paper, Managing Medical Bills on the Brink of Bankruptcy:We’re back again on Managing Medical Bills on…