MICHAEL BELLESILES UPDATE: Here is an article from Friday’s Emory Wheel that says that Bellesiles’ investigation has either moved to a second stage, or has cleared him, since nothing has been heard since the previously announced deadline has passed.

It’s hard for me to see why they’d be staying mum, which they are, if Bellesiles had been cleared.

In the pot-and-kettle department, meanwhile, we have this passage from a recent book review written by Bellesiles:

As many scholars have recently noted, none so ably as Laura Kalman, legal historians have been stuck for too long in “law-office history,” the process, in Reid’s words, of “rummaging through history and picking out bits and pieces to sustain an argument about current law.”

Of course, at least the “bits and pieces” that they cite are generally real, rather than fabricated.