Posts by Alfred Brophy

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…

 My friend (and co-editor) Sally Hadden gave me a report from the ground last week that Harvard University Press has closed its display room.   Amidst all the dire news in…

I've been meaning to talk about how to prepare for a college interview for some time.  And this morning's New York Times has an article on this topic--or at least how…

This morning's New York Timesbrings the sad news that Kenneth M. Stampp, a towering figure in American history, has passed away.  Stampp was best known for his 1956 book The…

Over at propertyprof, Ben Barros (whose scholarship overlaps in surprising ways Justice Alito's work when he was at Yale) has a post on the possibility (unlikely, I know) that law…

Yup--Mary Eastman, author of the important proslavery novel Aunt Phillis' Cabin (notice the parallel title to Uncle Tom's Cabin--Eastman was writing in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe) was married to…

The July 4th holiday is over and this is the heart of the scholarship-production season, so perhaps it's time for  a serious post. Ok--look--the news is really starting to trouble me.…