Month: May 2012

My friend Professor Carlos Ball of Rutgers Law School has just published The Right to Be Parents: LGBT Families and the Transformation of Parenthood with NYU Press.  Cribbing now a little…

Following up on Saturday's post on the SALT (Society of American Law Teachers) Faculty Salary Survey, I want to talk a little more about differences between salaries at tiers of ...

University of Pittsburgh law professor David Garrow -- who won a Pulitzer Prize for Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and contributes to the…

Following up on my post about President Obama in Chapel Hill, I want to talk about Attorney General Eric Holder's graduation speech here on Saturday.  I study graduation addresses at…

So, I’ve finally gotten out from behind the wheel of a car long enough to post something a bit meatier on the JP Morgan Whale Fail.  As I predicted in…

Thanks again to Carl Tobias, who suggested a civil rights library trivia question a while back,  I have a question that combines two topics I talk about now and then: ...

Tomorrow C-SPAN will broadcast a discussion at the JFK Library on “Civil Rights and Presidents Kennedy and Johnson,” that includes Ken Mack of Harvard Law School.  It will be broadcast at…

Now that there's a new SALT Salary Survey out, I want to take a look at the relationship between law faculty salary data and U.S. News ranks.  By way of background, SALT (the ...

My colleague Barb Fedders has an op-ed in today's Raleigh News and Observer about the aftermath of Tuesday's vote on the North Carolina constitutional amendment regarding marriage.  Barb responds to…

I'm looking forward to Attorney General Eric Holder's graduation speech tomorrow in Chapel Hill. Perhaps this is the reason that I thought that I'd post a trivia question related to…