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26 Feb 2015, 9:01 pm
Over the next month or two, tens of thousands of admitted applicants will make decisions about which law schools to attend. [read post]
3 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
The team, headed by Mary Jo White (a partner at the law firm of Debevoise and Plimpton and a former United States Attorney and Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission) and David Saratt (Senior Chair of Debevoise and a former Assistant United States Attorney), in concluding that Coach Meyer’s false statements were not deliberate, intimated instead that the statements may have been the product of “memory issues [even as to matters on which he had] prior extensive knowledge… [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
And membership changes have continued to influence doctrinal developments in fundamental areas of constitutional law: When one of us (Amar) graduated from law school in 1988, the Court was deferential to exercises of federal power. [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]
10 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm
A recent column in the New York Times entitled “Defying the Supreme Court,” by noted and Pulitzer-prize winning journalist David Leonhardt, exemplifies the problem. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 9:00 pm
When can federal judges, selected and given life tenure under Article III of the Constitution, inject themselves into core prosecutorial functions and decisions managed by the U.S. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
A few months ago, I wrote about an effort by the California legislature to undo an unwise (but duly enacted) voter initiative involving immigration policy. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
No, it isn’t law professor Alan Dershowitz’s claim that “abuses of power” that are neither formal crimes nor “crime-like” can never constitute impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors. [read post]
22 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm
Columns on this website that examine judicial rulings tend to focus on the very last stage of litigation—a U.S. [read post]
11 Aug 2019, 9:01 pm
Republican Party leaders and President Trump’s legal team have gone to court to block implementation of California’s newly enacted law that denies ballot access to presidential candidates who have chosen not to release their tax returns. [read post]
2 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm
High-level university administrators (say, deans, provosts, chancellors, and presidents)—in both private and public institutions—have been asked with increasing frequency in recent years to issue statements on behalf of the academic units/universities they lead concerning national and world events that certainly involve important topics of discourse but that may not have distinctive relevance to academic institutions. [read post]
14 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
As the fall semester approaches and college freshmen prepare to start school, there is renewed criticism of the University of California’s decision, implemented over the last few years at all or nearly all of the system’s campuses, to increase the number and percentage of out-of-state and international college students. [read post]
4 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm
With all the discussion these days over what public universities and municipalities can and should be doing to handle large, raucous rallies and protests without sacrificing public health and safety, one topic that has been mentioned but not often thoroughly analyzed is what the rules are, or ought to be, when a boisterous and angry crowd “shouts down” a speaker. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:00 pm
Partisan gerrymandering, one of the subjects of the Supreme Court’s important ruling in June in the Moore v. [read post]
23 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm
One of the vexing legal questions raised by President Trump’s original and revised executive orders concerning entry into the United States by nationals of several Middle Eastern and African countries is whether and how courts ought to take into account the subjective motives behind the executive order, whether or not these motives are reflected in the text of the orders themselves. [read post]
17 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm
Last week Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law SB 168, considered one of the strictest measures in the nation to prohibit state and local government entities from becoming so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions within the state. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm
In my last column, I began analyzing a recent plan by Silicon Valley billionaire investor Tim Draper to break up California into three separate states stemming from his view that “California’s diverse population and economies [have] rendered the state nearly ungovernable. [read post]
12 May 2019, 9:01 pm
President Trump’s tweet a few weeks ago—indicating that he “would first head to the U.S. [read post]
1 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm
As is typical, the Supreme Court this year delivered some of its biggest rulings at the end of the term. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s career will be remembered for so many things, most notably her work as a litigator, a law professor, a lower court judge and a Justice at the Supreme Court (where she sat for over a quarter century). [read post]
