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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]
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]
23 Oct 2014, 9:01 pm
Among the interesting U.S. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm
Immigration issues have dominated the headlines for the past three weeks, if not longer. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm
An interesting and potentially important lawsuit in federal court in Arizona is challenging the way state officials have sought to deal with the vacancy in the US Senate created by Senator McCain’s death four months ago (on August 25, 2018). [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
My biweekly column slot this week roughly coincides with the beginning of the new academic year at most law schools across the country. [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]
26 Mar 2015, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we analyze some complicated legal questions arising out of a proposed California initiative—the so-called “Sodomite Suppression Act” (SSA)—whose illegality and immorality are not complicated at all. [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]
9 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm
In today’s column, I analyze the Supreme Court oral argument held a few weeks ago in Walker v. [read post]
20 May 2021, 9:01 pm
In our last column, we focused on the “Most Favored Nation” (“MFN”) approach to the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment from the vantage point of protecting religious exercise as a liberty right. [read post]
21 May 2015, 9:01 pm
A few weeks ago the Supreme Court handed down an important yet under-noticed case, Williams-Yulee v. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm
June 2019 might become known in Illinois as the month the state legalized marijuana use, but I hope it remains better remembered as the 100th anniversary of Illinois’ ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment—the provision in the Constitution that prohibited discrimination in voting on account of sex. [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]
9 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
Now that one U.S. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm
Over the next few days, the California Bar announces the outcomes from the July 2014 exam. [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]
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]
30 Nov 2017, 9:01 pm
Over the next few weeks, law school final exams will be in full swing at almost every law school in the country. [read post]
14 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm
Last week Mississippi voters went to the polls to elect a new governor. [read post]
