Posts by Alfred Brophy

Ok--I'm resurfacing briefly from grading trusts and estates exams.  Been quiet of late because I've been busy.  However, there are a series of history of the book posts that I'm…

Our friends over at HUP blog are talking about Judge Posner's forthcoming book A Failure of Capitalism on the crash of 08.  It's due out in May and it's a…

Last fall I blogged a little bit about Geoffrey Stone's  "The World of the Framers: A Christian Nation?", which appeared in the UCLA Law Review (thanks to a pointer from our…

Well, the alternatives to US News keep proliferating.  Yesterday we had Dan Filler's post on Judge Pollak's most recent rankings in the Drexel Law Review.  Some years ago J. Gordon ...

Amidst all the talk of US News' law school rankings, we might forget that US News ranks other programs--including, this year, history departments.  Here's a link to them.  The history…

It isn't every day that the New York Times puts Greensboro Alabama on the front page!  Here's a charming story on Walker Evans' photographs of rural Alabama, which he made for…

I'm pleased to see that the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law is now out.  I'll have some more thoughts when my copy arrives.

Larry Solum's talking about an exciting new program from seven leading law reviews--Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, New York University Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, Stanford Law Review,…

The Crimson has the  latest on the Harvard Law School's grading curve and how it awards honors.

I appreciate all the leads dedicated readers are sending, but it's the end of the semester here in Chapel Hill and I'm absurdly busy.   In fact, I'm drowning in work. …