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From an email message that I received in recent days: The Teaching Fellow for the Stanford Law School LLM Program in Environmental Law & Policy will work with LLM student candidates in…

As I posted last week, the current issue of Contexts includes my essay on "Accuracy in Ethnography: Narratives, Documents, and Circumstances." The print issue of Contexts has now been published,…

Great Speckle Bird: I Am Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes: Wreck of the 1262: Gold Watch and Chain (not quite the same tune, but irresistible):

Call for Panel and Paper Proposals ClassCrits XII: Facing Our Challenges: Rescuing Democracy, Ensuring Wellbeing & Exorcizing the Politics of Fear (Or: How To Be Free) Co-Sponsored by Western New…

This just in: Mercer University’s School of Law is seeking visiting professors for one or both semesters of the 2019-20 school year to teach (1) Business Associations and other business…

I have an oped in the Chicago Tribune on Steven Salaita's unfair exile from academia and his new circumstances as a school bus driver. It covers pretty much the same…

This just in: Oklahoma City University School of Law seeks a full-time visiting faculty member for the 2019-20 Academic Year. This is a one-year, non-tenure-track position. Subject matter areas of…

This just in: Boston University School of Law, in conjunction with the University of Illinois College of Law, UCLA School of Law, and the University of Richmond School of Law,…

Juan Corona, also known as the "Machete Murderer" died in a California prison on March 4 at the age of 85. Corona had been convicted of 25 murders in 1973, ...

My essay on accuracy in ethnography (titled as above) will soon appear in Contexts, published by the American Sociological Association.  Here is the gist: The practice of institutional skepticism, or adversary…