- Nick Parrillo, Yale Law School, will present his recently published book, Against the Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940, at Harvard’s Center for American Political Studies, with support from the Charles Warren Center for American History, on Friday, April 11, 2-4pm, in Room K262, CGIS Knafel Building.
- From the Chronicle of Higher Education: "Doctoral students at Brown University are testing a new model for
interdisciplinary studies that allows them to pair advanced degrees in
sometimes-disparate fields, with the goals of broadening their knowledge
and improving their marketability." Read on here.
- The University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal invite submissions for the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction ("given annually to a book-length work of fiction, published in the
preceding year, that best illuminates the role of lawyers in society and
their power to effect change"). (Hat tip: In Custodia Legis).
- Gale Cengage announces new on-line resources: Indigenous Peoples: North America and the Associated Press's City Bureau Collection for Atlanta, Austin, Birmingham, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New Orleans,
Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, dating from 1931 to 2004. The
Washington Bureau is due out in the spring and should be a valuable
source on legal-political doings in the capital
- Via the Historical Society: the latest issue of Historically Speaking is now available online.
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