Posts by Alfred Brophy

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…

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…