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Peking University School of Transnational Law (“STL”) invites applications for entry-level and lateral tenure track scholars of torts, property law, constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, corporate and securities law, intellectual…

Mr. Catra, the controversial Brazilian singer and actor, died earlier this week of stomach cancer.  Born Wagner Domingues Costa, Mr. Catra had 32 or possibly 33 children with 18 women,…

On September 13, 1858, John Price, a farm laborer in his mid-20s, was kidnapped on a country road in northern Ohio. A posse of slave hunters organized by a Kentuckian ...

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…