Posts by Alfred Brophy

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…

I see the New York Times has an article on the rising number of home funerals -- and the rising number of people buried on family property, rather than in…

As I'm taking a mid-morning break from edits on Integrating Spaces, I see that lots of legal academics are  disappointed in the Sotomayor hearings.  I enjoyed listening to them (a…

Well, this is, so far as I can tell, the anniversary of my oldest memory.  I recall running up the stairs in our house to call mom to come down…

Earlier this summer I mentioned that some Confederate cash was found in the probate office of an Alabama courthouse recently.  While Stephen Davis and I were working on our study…