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It is great saddeness, Gordon Hylton has died.  He was a great guy — and a phenomal academic career. He had a distinguished legal academy, first Chicago Kent, then to…

When I teach Federal Income Tax, I always describe to my students the broad powers of the IRS to request and inspect records during an audit. It is not uncommon…

Gonzaga University (Spokane, Washington) seeks to fill up to four positions. The full job descriptions/hiring announcements (available here) are summarized below: Up to 2 Doctrinal Hires (tenure-track faculty positions) (details…

This just in: SYMPOSIUM: DIGNITY, TRADITION, & CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS:  COMPETING JUDICIAL PARADIGMS The William S. Boyd School of Law (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) will host a symposium entitled:…

The final version of the paper that I blogged about last week, Complete Chain of the First Global Kidney Exchange Transplant and 3-yr Follow-up, is now available online. The publisher…

Jesse Lemisch taught history for only one year at Northwestern, but it happened to be my junior year as an undergraduate (1968-69), so I was fortunate to be able to…

This weekend I went to see the exhibit Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection at the Met Breuer in New York. (The show runs…

             

From an email message that I received today: STANFORD LAW SCHOOL seeks a teaching fellow for the LLM Program in International Economic Law, Business & Policy. The appointment is for…

According to the New York Times, the Trump administration has compiled a list of about twelve people who might have written the now famous anonymous oped about disarray in the…