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22 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
This term, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in Jones v. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 9:00 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Deborah L. Brake
Justia columnist Michael Dorf questions whether the Department of Education even has the power to implement these regulations, while we continue here with our critique of their substance. [read post]
23 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
A group of anonymous students (or alleged students) at the University of Washington (“UW”) last year created an unusual wiki document. [read post]
15 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
One of the well-worn tropes of the 2016 presidential campaign is that the presumptive nominees of the two major parties both have “high negatives. [read post]
19 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
Everyone knows that blackmail is illegal. [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 12:00 pm by Guest Blogger
McClain, Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues (Harvard University Press, 2013)Michael C. [read post]
9 Oct 2013, 6:44 pm by Patrick S. O'Donnell
The Story:“HermanWallace dies at 71; ex-inmate held in solitary for 41 years” Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2013 By Elaine WooFor most of the past 41 years, Herman Wallace was allowed to leave his 6-by-9-foot Louisiana prison cell for only an hour a day a few times a week. [read post]
11 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
According to Michael Lewis, author of The Fifth Risk, “if you could somehow organize the entire population into a single line, all 350 million people, ordered not by height or weight or age but by each citizen’s interest in the federal government, and Donald Trump loitered somewhere near one end of it, Max Stier would occupy the other. [read post]
31 May 2023, 2:01 pm by Guest Author
Previously arcane arguments over the constitutionality of the public debt limit now make headlines.[1]  At the same time, debate swirls around whether the President of the United States has the constitutional authority, resting on Section Four of the 14thamendment, to ignore the debt limit. [read post]
28 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
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]
13 Jan 2021, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
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]
19 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
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]
5 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
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]
19 Dec 2012, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
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]
25 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
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]
24 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
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]
4 Feb 2025, 6:03 am by Eugene Volokh
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 by Eugene Volokh
FIRE (Robert Shibley) has a long and detailed analysis of the settlement (announced Jan. 21), which I highly recommend. [read post]