Posts by Alfred Brophy

From this morning's Montgomery Advertiser comes this sad story.   A development in Oxford, Alabama for a new Sam's Club is going to use earth from a Native American mound,…

  Well, it's our nation's birthday and that means it's time for some celebration -- and some fun.  Because I'm in the midst of edits on Integrating Spaces, I'm going…

In honor of July Fourth, I thought I'd talk a little bit about our nation's racial politics.  In particular, about the role that racial politics play in political thought. Professor…

Fast on the heels of the United States Senate's apology for slavery and Jim Crow comes news that two firms in the United Kingdom (Rothschild, the merchant bank and the…

This morning's Tusacloosa News brings news that my former colleague and friend  Susan Pace Hamill, a law professor at the University of Alabama, is running for the Alabama state legislature. Hamill's…

It's my great pleasure to welcome my colleague Mark Weidemaier into the faculty lounge.  Mark's going to be sitting with us for a spell.  Mark writes on a bunch of things,…

Now who says that no one cares about nineteenth-century southern legal history? According to the AP, $493 in confederate currencywas found in a Morgan County [Alabama] court file containing documents about…

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…