Dan Markel’s Life Lessons
Over at Forbes, I blogged about Dan Markel and his important lessons. He sorely missed.
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Introducing Guest Blogger Michael Coenen
I am thrilled to welcome aboard Professor Michael Coenen as a guest blogger. Professor Coenen joined the LSU Law Center faculty in 2013, having previously served as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on...
View ArticleBoston University Law Review’s Book Symposium: On War Powers and the...
Interesting upcoming event: the Boston University Law Review is hosting a book symposium on Steve Griffin’s Long Wars and the Constitution & Mariah Zeisberg’s War Powers: The Politics of...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Edited by esteemed civil procedure scholar Scott Dodson, the newly released book “The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg” is a significant contribution. The release is beautifully timed: the public is...
View ArticleUpcoming Online Symposium on Martha Ertman’s Love’s Promises: How Formal and...
During the week of June 22, 2015, we will be hosting on online symposium on Professor Martha Ertman’s ground-breaking new book Love’s Promises: How Formal and Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of...
View ArticleBoston University Law Review’s Symposium on the Civil Rights Act at 50
BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW VOLUME 95 NUMBER 3 MAY 2015 SYMPOSIUM: THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 AT 50: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE Editors’ Foreword PANEL I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES The Long Civil...
View ArticleOnline Symposium: Ertman’s Love’s Promises, How Formal and Informal Contracts...
It’s an honor to introduce Professor Martha Ertman and the participants in our online symposium on Love’s Promises: How Formal and Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of Families (Beacon Press). This...
View ArticleAALS Section on Poverty Law Call for Papers
AALS Section on Poverty Law Call for Papers for 2016 AALS Annual Meeting The AALS Section on Poverty Law is seeking abstracts or drafts of papers to be presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting in New York,...
View ArticleFrom Our Friends at University of Alabama Law School: Position Announcements
The University of Alabama School of Law anticipates making at least two tenured or tenure-track appointments to its faculty, to begin in the 2016-2017 academic year. The Faculty Appointments Committee...
View ArticleGifford and Jones on Keeping Cases from Black Juries: An Empirical Analysis...
My colleague Donald Gifford (whose book we featured here) and his co-author sociologist Brian Jones have an important new piece up on SSRN entitled “Keeping Cases from Black Juries: An Empirical...
View ArticleLawyers and Clients: The Absurd Reality for Indigent Clients Facing Execution
A Thought Experiment Suppose that Facebook got sued for a privacy tort for hosting nonconsensual pornography and that Facebook’s lawyer told company executives that she did not intend to mount...
View ArticlePrivatization: The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy Meeting
For readers attending AALS (or who live in the New York area), good news: the annual conference of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, on “Privatization,” is being held in...
View ArticleAALS and Markelfest happy hour
For those of you attending AALS in New York this week, Prawfsblawg is hosting a MarkelFest! Happy Hour from 8:30 p.m.-?? on Thursday (Jan. 7) at Bridges in the Hilton (entrance on the 54th Street...
View ArticleAALS, Professor Dan Markel, and the Scholarly Tradition
This week is the annual law professor conference in New York City. The AALS conference is always a wonderful ritual of learning, discussion, and friendship. Indeed, it was the one time of the year that...
View ArticleChallenging the Fairness of Risk Assessment Scores
Over at Forbes, I have a post up about yesterday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court decision upholding the use of risk assessment scores in sentencing determinations. Here is the post. Comments and engagement...
View ArticleHiring Committee Announcement
Professor Heather Elliott kindly passed on word related to Alabama University School of Law’s hiring goals for the year. Alabama seeks to fill entry-level/junior-lateral tenure-track positions for the...
View ArticleCalling all Scholars! Guaranteed Review at Hastings Law Journal
Some terrific news from the Executive Articles Editor at Hastings Law Journal: We know that many of you have impending deadlines, and we are still actively reviewing manuscripts. We can guarantee...
View ArticleThe Blindspot: Must Read New Blog
My colleague Max Stearns kicked off his new blog, The Blindspot, whose timeliness is matched by its insights. Max explains: I’m a different kind of law professor. Over the past twenty-five years, I...
View ArticleIdeological Blindspots and More
Here are two recent posts from Max Stearns’s The Blindspot: Ideological Blindspots (part 2): The Grandchildren Max Stearns Liberals and conservatives tend to take sharply divergent views of two major...
View ArticleCalling All SCOTUS Clerks: Illuminating New Book on the Fourth Amendment and...
On June 5, 2017, the Supreme Court announced that it will review United States v. Carpenter, a case involving long-term, retrospective tracking of a person’s movements using information generated by...
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