Posts by Alfred Brophy

Well, I'm trying to finish up a draft of my paper for the Pastorius Conference.  It reprises work I did ages and ages ago on Francis Daniel Pastorius' Young Country…

I've asked Melissa Jacoby and Mirya Holman to post a little bit more about their paper, which I mentioned yesterday.  This is the first of three guest posts they'll be…

Rather remotely is the honest answer to this question.  But, in my attempt to link everything to famous people--hey, if there's the "Tribe Obama Thesis," why not "Reese Witherspoon on…

Wondering about the connections between bankruptcy and medical bills?  Melissa Jacoby (UNC Law School) and Mirya Holman (Duke Law School) have an important new paper on "Managing Medical Bills on…

Among the findings that surprised Stephen Davis and me in our study of wills in the old South is how many wills contained trusts (either explicit or implicit)--nearly 40%.  I…

Revisiting a post from a few years back at propertyprof:I thought I’d pass along a link to Marvin Gaye’s rendition of the National Anthem at the 1983 NBA All Star Game.  Given…

I'm sitting here working on my paper on Quaker ideas about justice for the Pastorius conference (and cursing why I agreed to this -- but I know it'll be fun…

Amidst all the talk of probate in the old South, I've been meaning to talk about another paper that Sarah Ludington and Mitu Gulati and I have up, "Applied Legal…

Now that I've introduced the paper that  Stephen Davis and I have out on probate in the old South and written about the county where our study is centered, I'd like…

Following up my post on the interview of Richard Posner by the Duke Law School class co-taught by David Levi and Mitu Gulati, I thought I'd talk a little about…