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13 Apr 2025, 9:01 pm
But they offer colleges and universities ways to do more than duck and cover as lawsuits work their way through the courts and threats from the Trump administration proliferate.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
3 Apr 2025, 9:01 pm
”The nation deserves better.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
31 Mar 2025, 9:01 pm
”Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
31 Mar 2025, 9:12 am
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. [read post]
26 Mar 2025, 7:12 pm
I dug out Austin Sarat's book about cause lawyering, because he deals with the resistance conservative and libertarian lawyers faced from their law firms when they wanted to represent causes they believed in. [read post]
22 Mar 2025, 5:35 pm
” And online at Slate, Austin Sarat has a Jurisprudence essay titled “What to Make Of Paul Weiss’ Capitulation to Donald Trump; The claims against the big law firm were absurd; The law firm’s reaction was a disaster. [read post]
16 Mar 2025, 9:01 pm
Frost hoped would never arrive has become an American reality.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
11 Mar 2025, 9:00 pm
That way our defense of democracy will be rooted, as it should be, in the democratic practices of faculty self-governance itself.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
8 Mar 2025, 5:00 pm
Amherst professor Austin Sarat discusses how several state legislatures, particularly Alabama, are passing laws allowing the death penalty for child rape despite a 2008 Supreme Court ruling, Kennedy v. [read post]
6 Mar 2025, 9:00 pm
”That is true in Alabama and across the nation.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
5 Mar 2025, 9:01 pm
Political scientist Austin Sarat notes that IGs “play an important role in blowing the whistle on instances of gross inefficiencies or unlawful behavior and by not being the servants of any political party. [read post]
2 Mar 2025, 9:01 pm
”That is just one reason why it should be ended everywhere, even in places like Montana.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
16 Feb 2025, 9:00 pm
And, if it does not, it may help seal the fate of capital punishment across the United States.What was once said about national elections may one day be said about the death penalty: As Ohio goes, so goes the nation.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
5 Feb 2025, 9:01 pm
Sadly, it is an integral part of America’s death penalty system.There, cruelty abounds, as it did in the Bowman case, long before anyone is executed.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
3 Feb 2025, 6:45 am
(Michael Sean Winters, National Catholic Reporter) The 5th Circuit’s Ruling Striking Down Youth Handgun Ban Is Utter Madness (Austin Sarat, Slate) The post The morning read for Monday, Feb. 3 appeared first on SCOTUSblog. [read post]
2 Feb 2025, 9:01 pm
” As a result, it is likely to continue being one of the few states in the country that, year after year, keeps piling on death sentences.2024 showed that until abolitionists figure out strategies that can achieve the same kind of success in California that they have achieved in Texas, the United States will not be able to finally rid itself of the death penalty.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of… [read post]
2 Feb 2025, 6:18 pm
“The 5th Circuit’s Ruling Striking Down Youth Handgun Ban Is Utter Madness”: Austin Sarat has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate. [read post]
27 Jan 2025, 9:00 pm
If they fail, as I expect they will, their failure will open ever wider the door to authoritarianism.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
20 Jan 2025, 6:28 am
It will not be because Biden took their threats seriously.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
8 Jan 2025, 9:01 pm
Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
