Posts by Alfred Brophy

Update:  Neither of the following count as early scholarship, but ... in honor of her impending nomination to be Supreme Court Justice, here's a link to Judge Sotomayor's 2004 tribute to…

Yesterday's Birmingham News ran a story by Erin Stock about a most, most extraordinary case: that of Vietnam Veteran and hero Bill Terry.  Mr. Terry died in 1969 in Vietnam, ...

Since this is Memorial Day weekend, I thought that I'd dip into my stock of photos and post something from a National Cemetery.  Close readers of the blogosphere (and my…

In Thursday morning's Washington Post, Robert Barnes and Shailagh Murray suggest that two former law professors, Diane Wood and Elena Kagan, are emerging are front-runners for nomination to the Supreme Court.…

As I'm sitting here doing a little work on things antebellum, I see the sad news that David Herbert Donald has passed away.  Just so happens that his charming Lincoln is…

Err, that's President Obama's mother's next book.  The Duke Chronicle is reporting that Duke University Press--well known for its anthropology books--will publish a revised version of Ann Dunham's dissertation.From the…

Over at Co-Op, Kaimi Wenger's polling about readers' knowledge of events during the Jim Crow era. 

As promised,  now that I've seen the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, I have a few thoughts.  First off, it's a wonderfully creative volume, with essays on all sorts…

Lots of students are protesting these days--in Chapel Hill it was over former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who was UNC Law School's graduation speaker; in Indiana, it's over President Obama's…

Coming on the heels of news that Harvard Law School's budget is being trimmed 10%, comes news that Harvard College will be increasing the size of sections taught by graduate…