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14 Nov 2022, 11:53 am by David Bernstein
I received the following email from the Virginia chapter of the American Asssociation of University Professors (of which I am not a member, btw): 1. [read post]
2 Nov 2022, 7:44 am by David Bernstein
[Counsel for UNC did not know which box students of Middle Eastern Origin are supposed to check.] [read post]
29 May 2018, 12:22 pm by David E. Bernstein
As readers may recall, Democracy in Chains by Duke History Professor Nancy MacLean is a very badly-flawed account of the life, career, and influence of the late Nobel Prize winning economist, James Buchanan. [read post]
20 Feb 2023, 4:40 pm by David Bernstein
AP reports: [Seattle City Council member Kshama] Sawant has proposed an ordinance to add caste to Seattle's anti-discrimination laws. [read post]
31 Mar 2024, 6:52 pm by David Bernstein
[An article I coauthored spurred an amendment to the Federal Rules of Evidence] Longtime readers will recall that every so often, I would go on a "rant" about how many federal judges were ignoring the text of Federal Rule of Evidence 702, as amended in 2000. [read post]
9 May 2018, 8:15 am by David E. Bernstein
Nancy MacLean's atrocious book, Democracy in Chains, points to a speech given by libertarian billionaire Charles Koch at an Institute for Humane Studies conference in 1997 as revealing Koch's intellectual debt to James Buchnanan in Koch's purported efforts to destroy democracy. [read post]
30 Jun 2018, 5:55 am by David E. Bernstein
My new article, just published in the Notre Dame Journal of Legislation, tackles the controversy over whether laws that require government construction contractors to pay the prevailing wage have a racist history, and whether they continue to have discriminatory effects on minority workers. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 2:25 pm by David Bernstein
Scene 1: One day on Twitter Glenn Greenwald: Republicans criticizing Rep. [read post]
11 Dec 2022, 11:19 am by David Bernstein
Simkovic, over at Leiter's Law School Reports, defends the LSAT from those who would eliminate it in an effort to enhance law school "diversity" (see the original for hyperlinks supporting various assertions): If standardized test scores were removed from the rankings, or their weight reduced, law schools probably would spend less money on merit scholarships. [read post]
17 Nov 2018, 4:58 am by David E. Bernstein
The ACLU no longer even pretends to believe in civil liberties.In the late 1960s, the ACLU was a small but powerful liberal organization devoted to a civil libertarian agenda composed primarily of devotion to freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and the rights of accused criminals. [read post]
7 Jun 2024, 7:51 am by David Bernstein
My forthcoming article, Three Bad Ideas about Race in America, has been posted on SSRN. [read post]
27 Jul 2018, 6:54 am by David E. Bernstein
Act I: Shook, Hardy, and Bacon attorney Paul Reid (who I don't know and have no prior connection with) represents a severely injured plaintiff seeking compensation for his injury. [read post]
6 Jun 2022, 10:27 am by David Bernstein
[The law school reinstated him on a technicality, but made it clear that they weren't going to uphold the university's free speech policy.] [read post]
22 May 2024, 9:24 am by David Bernstein
Along with dozens of Title VI administrative complaints filed with the Office of Civil Rights, at least fourteen colleges and universities are facing lawsuits over their handling of antisemitism on campus since October 7. [read post]
16 Oct 2023, 8:38 pm by David Bernstein
[UPDATE: I removed the list of signators, as a few of them have related to me that they intended the correspondence in question to be "private within the NWU Law" community. [read post]
15 Mar 2023, 2:19 pm by David Bernstein
Nature, last month (paywall): The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will soon require [based on new federal legislation] researchers and companies seeking approval for late-stage clinical trials to submit a plan for ensuring diversity among trial participants…. [read post]
5 Dec 2021, 6:28 pm by David Bernstein
[The NYU Review of Law and Social Change has voted to endorse and enforce the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel.] [read post]
27 Jul 2022, 4:54 am by David Bernstein
[Arab and Iranian activist groups are trying to get the Biden administration to impose a new MENA classification; it would have some surprising effects on American Jews.] [read post]