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28 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
In the last several years, a number of professors have begun to give “trigger warnings” prior to discussing sensitive materials with their students. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
The Supreme Court has been asked repeatedly over four decades to answer some version of the same question: do fathers have the same right as mothers to pass on American citizenship to their children? [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 9:00 pm
Last Wednesday, as I was planning to start writing my Verdict column for publication the next day, news broke that violent rioters had invaded the United States Capitol on what would soon turn into a deadly and murderous rampage. [read post]
4 Feb 2025, 6:03 am
FIRE (Robert Shibley) has a long and detailed analysis of the settlement (announced Jan. 21), which I highly recommend. [read post]
4 Feb 2025, 6:03 am
FIRE (Robert Shibley) has a long and detailed analysis of the settlement (announced Jan. 21), which I highly recommend. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm
In this column, I will be reviewing a book written by my colleague, Sital Kalantry, entitled Women’s Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India. [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm
Sentience is what, in my view (and as Michael Dorf and I explain in Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights) distinguishes between “something” and “someone,” between human or animal tissue and a human or animal moral person who is subjectively aware of things and is accordingly entitled to moral consideration.If the woman whose fetus is sentient but not yet viable wants to remove the fetus from her body, my position says that she may do so and may kill… [read post]
11 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
” Michael Dorf published a blog post about the topic on which he and I presented. [read post]
28 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
Two years ago, the U.S. [read post]
20 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm
When we speak of “rights,” we tend to mean one of two things. [read post]
3 May 2024, 8:49 am
HR6090, which passed the House of Representatives Wednesday by a 320-91 vote, would provide, in relevant part, For purposes of this Act, the term "definition of antisemitism"— (1) means the definition of antisemitism adopted on May 26, 2016, by the IHRA [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance], of which the United States is a member, which definition has been adopted by the Department of State; and (2) includes the "[c]ontemporary examples of antisemitism"… [read post]
25 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
A couple of weeks ago, I learned that a local high school was renaming its fall picnic a “barbecue,” because the word “picnic” is racist. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 9:01 pm
More than a year ago, Trump’s former “fixer” Michael Cohen stated plainly that “there will never be a peaceful transition of power” under Trump. [read post]
18 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
World leaders, the media, most of the public, and even a few Republicans are now matter-of-factly saying that the post-election insanity being inflicted upon us by Donald Trump and his enablers is simply the dying gasp of a narcissistic sore loser. [read post]
19 Dec 2012, 9:01 pm
The post-election negotiations over the misnamed “fiscal cliff” (which I discussed in my most recent Verdict column) continue to keep the country on a rollercoaster ride. [read post]
20 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm
From 1988 presidential nominee Michael Dukakis’s refusal to defend “the L-word” (his opponent’s sneering dismissal of the dreaded word liberal) to the party elites’ full-on freakout against Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 primaries, to the party’s leaders blocking progressive candidates and popular policies to this day, the Democratic Party has been led by people who have often seemed almost laser-focused on undermining their own long-term political… [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm
A few weeks ago, the U.S. [read post]
3 Mar 2023, 6:55 pm
Pix Credit here At the invitation of my publisher I have been working on the production of a comprehensive commentary of the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights. [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 3:05 pm
Indeed, to call it a “too clever by half … cabalistic overreading” (see Michael Dorf, quoting Akhil Amar) might, if anything, give it too much credit. [read post]
25 Jun 2023, 10:54 am
It's based on amicus briefs that Michael Dorf (Cornell), Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern), and I filed in past cases (and that I blogged about before), but it elaborates somewhat further on that argument. [read post]
