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23 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University and co-author, most recently, of Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights. [read post]
9 Sep 2014, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
A headspinning pair of decisions regarding state same-sex marriage (SSM) bans last week may have brought the issue one step closer to the Supreme Court. [read post]
4 Aug 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
On four consecutive days last week, CNN.com published articles revealing details about the behind-closed-doors deliberations and machinations of the Supreme Court during the most recent Term. [read post]
1 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
As part of a negotiated resolution with protesters who recently occupied his office for 32 hours, Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber agreed to request that the Board of Trustees “initiate conversations concerning the present legacy of Woodrow Wilson on th[e Princeton] campus. [read post]
22 Aug 2017, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Last week, GoDaddy canceled the website registration for the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer following an extremely misogynistic post on the site mocking Heather Heyer, the young woman who was murdered in Charlottesville by a neo-Nazi who (it certainly appears) deliberately drove his car into her and numerous other counter-demonstrators. [read post]
24 Mar 2015, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
The March issue of the Harvard Law Review includes a punchy review of Richard Epstein’s 2014 book, The Classical Liberal Constitution. [read post]
15 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
History does not repeat, but it rhymes (according to a maxim sometimes but apparently falsely attributed to Mark Twain). [read post]
17 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
After Congress denied him most of the funding he requested for a border wall last week, President Trump declared a national emergency, thereby invoking power to shift funds that were originally appropriated for other purposes. [read post]
21 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Having apparently learned a lesson from the fate that befell the presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania after they testified before Congress last December, last week Columbia University President Minouche Shafik gave an unequivocal “yes” answer to the question from Representative Elise Stefanik that tripped up Shafik’s erstwhile Ivy League peers: whether calls for genocide of Jews would violate the campus code of conduct.To be sure, some of Shafik’s other… [read post]
27 Sep 2022, 9:03 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University and co-author, most recently, of Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights. [read post]
3 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
John Hart Ely dedicated his extraordinarily influential 1980 book on judicial review, Democracy and Distrust, to Chief Justice Earl Warren. [read post]
11 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University and co-author, most recently, of Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights. [read post]
20 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Last week’s horrific mass shooting at a Florida high school quickly led to an all-too-familiar pattern of “thoughts and prayers,” calls for gun control measures, counter-assertions that such calls improperly “politicize” a tragedy, and the dissection of the shooter’s background, with special focus on his mental health. [read post]
5 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
In a post-oral-argument order last week, the Supreme Court sought supplemental briefing from the parties to the latest religious challenge to Obamacare. [read post]
1 May 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Last week, a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a ruling by a federal district judge rejecting an effort by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to bring a copyright lawsuit on behalf of Naruto, a crested macaque. [read post]
23 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University and co-author, most recently, of Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights. [read post]