Posts by Alfred Brophy

My colleauge Carol Brown has a new paper, Intent and Empirics: Race to the Subprime, up on ssrn, which turns to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act filings to dissect the racial…

What great news that Robert Post is the new dean of Yale Law School!  Many congratulations to Dean Post and to Yale, too.  They're most foruntate to have one another.…

Peter Berkowitz' latest in the Wall Street Journal suggests that we need more Burke and Tocqueville.  Here's a sample: [A] political science department may feature a course on American political…

Recyclying another post from propertyprof back in June 2007:  This much talk recently at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal about the impending opening--tomorrow--of Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan,…

Wilkes University's board of trustees is moving ahead with plans to open a law school, according to this story from the Times Leader.  We've previously mentioned that they hired Loren…

Thanks to a pointer from Sally Greene, I learn this afternoon that the Senate has adopted a non-binding resolution that apologizes for slavery.  The resolution passed via a voice vote. ...

We've spoken before about the combination of beer and coffee.  Now a new installment in the coffee series.  This time it's about a thermos, coffee, and a parking space ....This…

This seems like a lot of inside baseball, but those following Harvey Silverglate's attempt to get on the Harvard Board of Overseers will be interested in knowing that his petition…

It's my great pleasure to welcome Kim Krawiec of Duke Law School into the faculty lounge.  Kim's going to be sitting with us for a spell.  Kim was with UNC…

Paul Heald has a brief essay up on ssrn, "The Death of Law and Literature."  It's a fast read and addresses the problems of relevancy and audience for law and…