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18 Jun 2023, 9:03 pm
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently handed down an important 2-1 ruling in a case involving changes in the admissions policy at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (“Thomas Jefferson” or “TJ”) in Alexandria, Virginia, a public STEM-focused school that has a selective admissions process and that has traditionally served high-performing students. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
” Hasen argued that as we look with fear toward 2024’s election aftermath, we should [f]orget bonkers accusations about Italy using lasers to manipulate American vote totals and expect white-shoe lawyers with Federalist Society bona fides to argue next time about application of the “independent state legislature” doctrine in an attempt to turn any Republican presidential defeat into victory.My Verdict colleague Vikram Amar is arguably the leading expert on… [read post]
29 May 2023, 9:01 pm
A fast-moving lawsuit filed and ruled upon last week by a federal district judge highlights fundamental and recurring flaws in the judicial treatment of First Amendment freedom of expression, with plenty of blame to go around among various actors in our constitutional system.The dispute arose at Grand Valley High, a rural public high school about 45 miles from Grand Junction, Colorado. [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:01 pm
Like many other points of contention in modern America, the disagreement between the left and the right over raising the debt ceiling straddles constitutional law and politics. [read post]
15 May 2023, 9:01 pm
In the space below I offer some initial reactions to a bill that cleared the California Senate Judiciary Committee last month and that has been generating controversy, especially within parts of the South Asian community, in the Golden State. [read post]
11 May 2023, 9:00 pm
There are ever more stories in the news these days involving professors at public universities who seem to claim that university diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and programs are trampling the professors’ free speech rights. [read post]
4 May 2023, 9:01 pm
Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law on the Urbana-Champaign campus. [read post]
30 Apr 2023, 9:00 pm
On Friday the North Carolina Supreme Court pulled what the Wall Street Journal editorial board called a “switcheroo. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
But as Vikram Amar and Jason Mazzone put it in a Verdictcolumn from which I quoted last week: “[E]ach law school should not merely tolerate but embrace controversial speakers (provided they are serious people and not just incendiary propagandists). [read post]
21 Apr 2023, 10:00 am
ABA Journal, Stanford Law's Black Law Students Association Pulls Out of Recruiting Activities After Federalist Society Event Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois) & Jason Mazzone (Illinois), What Law Students Should Take Away from the Stanford Law School Controversy Involving Disruption of a Federal Judge’s Speech: Part One in a Series,... [read post]
Do Law Schools Truly Have to Worry About Students Not Being Able to Handle Real-World Disagreements?
20 Apr 2023, 10:26 am
In my columns, I cited with approval a two-part Verdict series by Illinois Law's Dean Vikram Amar and his colleague Professor Jason Mazzone. [read post]
20 Apr 2023, 4:00 am
Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois) & Jason Mazzone (Illinois), What Law Students Should Take Away from the Stanford Law School Controversy Involving Disruption of a Federal Judge’s Speech: Part One in a Series: National attention has recently been directed to the boisterous protest by Stanford Law School (SLS) students at... [read post]
16 Apr 2023, 9:02 pm
But for a recent example of the problems that arise when people speak before thinking these issues through, see this prior column that one of us (Amar) wrote.4. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 6:45 pm
” Law professors Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone have this essay online at Justia’s Verdict. [read post]
10 Apr 2023, 9:00 pm
National attention has recently been directed to the boisterous protest by Stanford Law School (SLS) students at a Federalist Society Event featuring Judge Kyle Duncan, a conservative Trump-appointed judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. [read post]
20 Mar 2023, 9:01 pm
In the summer of 2021, the Missouri governor signed into law the state’s so-called “Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA),” whose preamble (a section styled as “findings”) declares that the “supremacy” of federal law “does not extend to various federal statutes, executive orders, [etc., that regulate firearms and ammunition in various ways]. [read post]
10 Mar 2023, 10:00 am
David Rosenberg College of Law) (Feb. 2023) Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois), Some Thoughts on the Recent Controversies Concerning... [read post]
6 Mar 2023, 12:10 am
Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois), Some Thoughts on the Recent Controversies Concerning Law (and Med) School Rankings: Part I in a Series: [T]here is no doubt that certain specific aspects of U.S. [read post]
1 Mar 2023, 9:01 pm
In my last column, Part One in this series, I offered some observations about the increasingly loud and frequent criticisms of the US News rankings systems for law (and medical) schools that have been voiced in recent months by some of the nation’s best-known (and generally most highly rated) professional schools themselves. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 9:00 pm
Prominent rankings of institutions Americans care about are invariably controversial. [read post]
