Posts by Alfred Brophy

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…

In the series of posts that I'm doing on the paper Stephen Davis and I have up on ssrn about wills and trusts in the old South, I thought that…

While I'm still reeling from the news that Harvard University Press' display room is closed, I see that HUP has signed a deal with Scribd to distribute HUP books in…

Well, I was up Hillsborough recently to check out some of the historical sites up there.  (I wrote a little bit about Thomas Ruffin's grave not too long ago.)  On…

When Officer Crowley, Professor Gates, and President Obama sit down to a beer at the White House (or perhaps it should be at a neutral place, like Fenway Park--next time…

I'd told myself that I wouldn't blog about Henry Lewis Gates' arrest, because I have nothing to add that hasn't been said better by someone else already.  But I now…

Something that hasn't gotten the attention it deserves in the blogosphere is the conversation that Richard Posner had with a Duke Law School class led by David Levi and Mitu Gulati.  The…