Posts by Alfred Brophy

A couple weeks back I spent a couple of days in lovely Tennessee, where I had the chance to talk a little bit about monuments and memory with Spencer Crew's…

The subtitle of this post is "law professor in Target."  (Or perhaps it should be "law professor loose in Target.")  I delayed my trip to Philadelphia so that I could…

Among the many interesting documents that are now up on the Senate Judiciary Committee's website are syllabi for the appellate advocacy classes that Sonia Sotomayor co-taught at NYU (with Adjunct…

Why, why didn't I know about John Hope's 1851 painting, "A Marble Quarry," which is in the Boston MFA's collection? This would have been a great image to use in…

Over at the legal history blog Sally Greene--whom I frequently describe as our nation's most thoughtful politician--has a series of posts on Thomas Ruffin's 1830 opinion in State v. Mann.…

A couple of weeks ago we had the sad news that David Herbert Donald has passed away.  Now comes the news that long-time Harvard history professor Ernest May passed away…

We've been talking a lot about Harvard of late--particularly the belt-tightening in light of the recession.  So it's a real pleasure to talk about an expansion there: a new chair…

One of my areas of interest is multi-generational studies of families.  Francis Daniel Pastorius to Jaco Pastorius, for instance; Theodore Sedgwick to Kyra Sedgwick for another (and Catharine Sedgwick, too).  And,…

There's a very short slice of a speech that Judge Sotomayor gave in February 2005 at Duke making the rounds on the internet, in which she says something that some…

Many, many congratulations to Judge Sotomayor on her nomination to the United States Supreme Court.  The confirmation hearings promise a robust debate on the role of empathy and on the role…