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26 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Philadelphia’s mayor signed into law this week a measure that prohibits employers in the city from asking job applicants to provide their past salary data, something supporters of the ordinance hope will help reduce the wage gap between men and women.The theory appears to be that if women’s wages currently lag men’s for illegitimate reasons, and if employers base new starting salaries in any significant measure on salary histories (which in turn would be affected by improperly low… [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
He is a co-author, along with William Cohen and Jonathan Varat, of a major constitutional law casebook, and a co-author of several volumes of the Wright & Miller treatise on federal practice and procedure. [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
He is a co-author, along with William Cohen and Jonathan Varat, of a major constitutional law casebook, and a co-author of several volumes of the Wright & Miller treatise on federal practice and procedure. [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
He is a co-author, along with William Cohen and Jonathan Varat, of a major constitutional law casebook, and a co-author of several volumes of the Wright & Miller treatise on federal practice and procedure. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 2:30 am by Blog Editorial
 Today’s live blog team comprises Ryan Dolby-Stevens (Olswang), Natalie Hall (CMS), Jonathan Scrine (Nabarro), Jack Ballantyne (Olswang), Clementine Bottet (Nabarro) & Cathryn Hopkins (Olswang). 16.32: James Eadie QC submits that any control by Parliament of the royal prerogative has been via express provision. [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
California—typically the last state to finish grading its summer bar exams—recently announced results for the July 2016 test administration, and the news was not good. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
He is a co-author, along with William Cohen and Jonathan Varat, of a major constitutional law casebook, and a co-author of several volumes of the Wright & Miller treatise on federal practice and procedure. [read post]
11 Nov 2016, 8:02 pm by Schachtman
The Court cited Richard Wright and Jonathan Cohen’s criticisms of probabilistic evidence (and Cohen’s Gatecrasher’s Paradox), and urged caution in applying class or group statistics to generate probabilities that class members share the group characteristic. [read post]
3 Nov 2016, 5:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
In July, in the aftermath of FBI Director James Comey’s wrong-headed decision to go public with the recommendations he was making to prosecutors in the DOJ that there was no plausible basis for prosecution of Hillary Clinton arising out of her email transgressions (and equally wrong-headed decision to opine about matters that went beyond whether prosecution was warranted), I wrote a column for this website identifying broader constitutional lessons to be gleaned from the episode.Since, as… [read post]
20 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Michael Schaps
He is a co-author, along with William Cohen and Jonathan Varat, of a major constitutional law casebook, and a co-author of several volumes of the Wright & Miller treatise on federal practice and procedure. [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 11:50 am by Sarah M Donnelly
Registration Page Agenda at a Glance Thursday, October 13, 2016 (6:00 pm – 8:00 pm)Gala & Keynote Presentation Devon Lomayesva, Chief Judge, Intertribal Court of Southern California *Dinner will be provided Friday, October 14, 2016 (8:30 am – 5:00 pm)Presentation of the Award for Outstanding Achievement in California Indian Law Carole Goldberg, Jonathan D. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Given that this week is the first in the Supreme Court’s new Term, it is hardly surprising that I will devote today’s column to a case on the Court’s docket this week. [read post]
22 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Columns on this website that examine judicial rulings tend to focus on the very last stage of litigation—a U.S. [read post]
13 Sep 2016, 4:43 am
"Yes, Most Donald Trump Supporters Are Deplorable and Irredeemable," by Jonathan Chait. [read post]
Late last month, a federal trial court in Texas issued a nationwide order preventing the federal Department of Education (DOE), as well as a number of other federal agencies, from enforcing—anywhere in the country—their “interpretation of the definition of ‘sex’ in the various written directives … as applied to Title IX … and Title VII” (which are federal laws that prohibit certain entities from discriminating on the basis of sex). [read post]
24 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In a very unusual recent law review essay, University of Chicago (emeritus) law Professor Al Alschuler seeks to expose what he sees as judicial wrongdoing by Frank Easterbrook, a prominent judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (who came to the bench after a prolific career as a law professor and legal scholar, also at the University of Chicago.) [read post]
11 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Sometimes when a lawmaking body adopts a new rule that seeks to promote the protection of civil liberties, the effort backfires. [read post]