Posts by Alfred Brophy

Continuing in our occasional series that comments on newly released books (and some that are back in the news again), I want to call your attention to the latest from…

  As I'm sitting here grading trusts and estates exams, I'm thinking again about an exchange from earlier in the semester.... Thanks to Jason Mazzone for raising important questions about…

The Washington Post has a charming portrait of Justice Souter ("Quiet N.H. Home Is Where Souter's Heart Has Always Been"), which includes these three paragraphs:"He never unpacked," said Thomas Rath,…

Many congratulations to Irma Russell, who has just been named dean at the University of Montana's School of Law.  The University of Tulsa's loss is the University of Montana's gain.  From…

The last couple of years, I've looked a little at the aggregate data for peer and lawyer/judge assessments for each of the US News tiers.   This time I'm interested…

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…