Category: Law/Legal history

This is part III (and the final part) of a series I wrote on Lanfranc of Bec, which was originally posted in 2015. I am…

In my novel Acceptable Misconduct, the main character, Isabel, gets pulled over by a police officer for an unknown infraction. Anxiety-ridden, she tries to figure…

This is the third year in a row I’ve published this post on my birthday. On my birthday, few things give me more pleasure than to…

June 14, 2016 – Alexandria, VA For my 40th birthday post, few things give me more pleasure than to write about my all-time favorite historical personage, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Those of you who know me well know that I’ve studied Eleanor’s life since I was about 15 years old. She was an exceptional woman during a time […]

Alexandria, VA – October 18, 2016 Moore v. Regents of the University of Southern California (51 Cal.3d 120 (July 9, 1990)) was one of the…

June 14, 2016 – Alexandria, VA For my 40th birthday post, few things give me more pleasure than to write about my all-time favorite historical personage, Eleanor…

Alexandria, VA – June 9, 2016 Today we’re going to talk about profit. I like profit. Who doesn’t, right? Seriously, money is not an end…

January 27, 2016 – Alexandria, VA Let’s switch gears a little and talk about a tort law case, rather than a constitutional law case. And…

Alexandria, VA – January 11, 2015 In my post on Lochner v. New York and the subsequent cases that overruled it, we talked about how…

Alexandria, VA – December 20, 2015 Let’s do something fun. Now, my definition of fun is probably different from yours. For me, fun is talking…