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I want to pass along the sad news that one of my mentors, Richard Coulson, passed away last week.  Richard, whose scholarship was centered around international law and legal history,…

I mentioned yesterday the inept reference that Tom Buchanan made in The Great Gatsby to Lothrop Stoddard's The Rising Tide of Color -- which is really a scary book.   Right now…

Longtime University of Texas law professor John F. Sutton, Jr. passed away at the age of 95 in recent days.  Sutton joined the UT law faculty in 1957, served as…

Thanks to Gary Rosin for pointing out that the summary of the new ABA law school employment data release is here.  School by school statistics can be found, individually, here.…

The newest voume summary from LSAC is out and it indicates that, as of February 15, 2013, applications have increased to the point that law schools are now down a…

Thursday is going to be a big day for legal history -- there's the Harvard Journal of Gender and Law's discussion of congressional power and sex equality and Tera Hunter's ...

The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Southern Intellectual History Circle will take place February 21-23, 2013, at Mercer University.  The program is below the fold. Thursday, February 215:00 pm Woodruff House, Keynote ...

I have just heard from Carl Tobias the beloved and distinguished professor Dan Meador of the University of Virginia law school has passed away.  Meador, a native of Selma, was…

I saw in the obituaries at the New York Times yedsterday morning that Essie Mae Washington-Williams passed away on Feburary 4.  She was the daughter of Strom Thurmond.  A few years…

Although the current situation is clearly different in several respects, it's intriguing to read some of the comments in these four classic ABA Journal articles documenting the change in law…