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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]
12 May 2020, 9:00 pm
COVID-19 has (rightly) pushed from the headlines almost every political controversy lacking a coronavirus angle. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm
With many eyes this week on the Ninth Circuit litigation challenging President Trump’s Executive Order regulating entry into the U.S. by nationals of seven Middle Eastern and African countries, less noticed but potentially as important is a separate lawsuit (San Francisco v. [read post]
15 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm
A few weeks back, in Meriwether v. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
Every several years, around this time in the spring semester, I try to collect and update advice to offer to law students as they enter final-exam period (which is about to take place over the next few weeks at virtually every law school in the country). [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
A recent controversy over an invited-speaker event at the University of Pittsburgh (a public university in Pennsylvania known as “Pitt”) illustrates how both sides in free speech controversies at public universities seem to do and say untenable things, and also how the Supreme Court could improve matters by providing more clarity on key doctrinal and practical questions.The following factual contentions are drawn (and quote) from a demand letter sent to Pitt officials by the Alliance… [read post]
4 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
Earlier this week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 826, a landmark measure that requires each publicly held corporation whose principal executive offices are located in California to have, by the end of 2019, at least one woman on its board of directors. [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]
9 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
At the beginning of this month, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich filed suit pro se (that is, by himself rather than through a lawyer on his behalf) in federal district court in Chicago to block the implementation of the Illinois State Senate’s decision over a decade ago to ban him from holding any state or local public office in Illinois for the rest of his life. [read post]
9 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm
Allen v Cooper, decided a few weeks ago by the Supreme Court, is significant for both its substance and its methodology. [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm
In Part One of this two-part series, I contended that the reading of the Obamacare statute offered by the plaintiffs in the important King v. [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm
The Senate has announced that when it convenes later this month for the second impeachment trial of former President Donald J. [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]
12 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
I cringe when I hear folks express a fear that a Supreme Court nominee is likely to “use his position as a judge to legislate from the bench. [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]
7 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
For many law students, membership in and service on an academic journal is a highlight of the law school experience. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm
In my column this week, I explore an important First Amendment free speech ruling handed down at the end of December by the California Supreme Court. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 7:41 am
To help you better understand the decision, below are some links to commentary on the matter and other helpful resources, including briefs and a transcript of the the Supreme Court oral argument.CommentaryVikram David Amar, Does the Diversity Justification for Affirmative Action (Mis)Use Minority Students? [read post]
20 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
One shouldn’t push the cases too far because (as Amar noted in his critique of them) members of the U.S. [read post]
8 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm
Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission), Akhil Amar explored the more general phenomenon of words and phrases that recur in the Constitution. [read post]
