Posts by Bridget J. Crawford

My Aunt Jody has the neatest handwriting of anyone I know.  When I was growing up in the 1970's, any day I received a letter from Aunt Jody was like…

Critical Perspectives on Tax Policy Workshop Call for Papers This is a call for individual paper presentations or incubator ideas that look at tax policy from a critical perspective.  A…

  Harvard University Press has just published a book by Serena Mayeri (Penn). Here is the publisher's description of Reasoning from Race Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution: Informed…

Pace University School of Law  (White Plains, NY) is seeking to fill one position, titled, Assistant Dean of Environmental Programs and Professor of Law for Designated Project or Service (Assistant…

 Members of the LL.M. Class of 2011 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School have joined with students from Wharton's Japan Club to fundraise for earthquake relief efforts in Japan. …

One of the great things about teaching Wills, Trusts & Estates is that the cases are so colorful.  The fights about money, the family configurations, eccentric behavior, unusual circumstances, generational…

Former Oxford University Press editor Rachel Toor writes here in the Chronicle with some advice for book authors: You have fewer than 50 pages to get the editors' attention. Your…

The Wheels of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement is the title of a self-published book by Donald Crawford (no relation)  about his father, Worcy Crawford, an African-American owner of a…

Is there a way to give gentle and well-intended feedback to a colleague who hasn't asked for it?  Specifically, how can one approach a colleague and suggest that his or…

Jonathan Chait writes about the "Triumph of Taxophobia" over (here) at Democracy: A Journal of ideas.     There is one idea that explains Republican behavior [over a period of…