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28 May 2023, 3:30 pm by David Bernstein
I always find it disturbing when an incident that "I know" turns out to have been quite different from how it's consistently reported and what I believed to be true. [read post]
1 May 2023, 4:19 am by David Bernstein
This bad: The documents show how Scalia Law has offered the justices a safe space in a polarized Washington — an academic cocoon filled with friends and former clerks, where their legal views are celebrated, they are given top pay and treated to teaching trips abroad, and their personal needs are anticipated, from lunch orders to, in Justice Gorsuch's case, house hunting. [read post]
18 Apr 2023, 10:39 am by David Bernstein
Today is Yom HoShoah, the annual Jewish Day of Remembrance for victims of the Shoah (Holocaust). [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 10:00 am by Scott Fruehwald
David Bernstein (George Mason), More Elite Law Student Foolishness, This Time at Columbia Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), The Law Schools Most Impacted By The Methodology Changes In The Projected 2024 U.S. [read post]
29 Mar 2023, 10:00 am by Paul Caron
David Bernstein (George Mason; Google Scholar), More Elite Law Student Foolishness, This Time at Columbia: Apparently jealous of all the attention that Yale and Stanford law students have gotten for acting like imperious children, Columbia law students, represented by BALSA, LALSA, NALSA, EWOC, OutLaws, QTPOC, IfWhenHow, APALSA, and SALSA (no,... [read post]
28 Mar 2023, 4:20 pm by David Bernstein
Apparently jealous of all the attention that Yale and Stanford law students have gotten for acting like imperious children, Columbia law students, represented by BALSA, LALSA, NALSA, EWOC, OutLaws, QTPOC, IfWhenHow, APALSA, and SALSA (no, I'm not familiar with all of these acronyms), have been throwing a collective hissy fit. [read post]
25 Mar 2023, 2:10 pm by David Bernstein
The federal Office of Management and Budget has requested comments on several proposals to change the official federal racial and ethnic classifications. [read post]
22 Mar 2023, 6:21 pm by Stephen E. Sachs
To second an important point made in Dean Martinez's new letter (discussed in David Bernstein's post below): law schools, like other institutions, sometimes have good moral reasons to stay silent on important moral questions. [read post]
22 Mar 2023, 5:34 pm by David Bernstein
After a more ambiguous initial reaction to student disruption of Judge Kyle Duncan's speech, sponsored by the Stanford Federalist Society, Dean Jennifer Martinez has issued a passionate, well-argued, and occasionally blistering letter explaining why the students behaved inappropriately, and expressing the view that Stanford's "commitment to diversity and inclusion means that we must protect the expression of all views. [read post]
21 Mar 2023, 7:01 am by Randy E. Barnett
Since 2005, I have assigned 90 books by 83 authors, with Sandy Levinson, Gerard Magliocca, Eric Segall, Dan Farber, Philip Hamburger, Kim Roosevelt, and David Bernstein each making more than 1 appearances. [read post]
18 Mar 2023, 11:50 am by David Bernstein
For federal transportation contracting and for Small Business Administration progams, it's advantageous to have one's business certified as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, or DBE. [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 10:00 am by Scott Fruehwald
David Bernstein (George Mason), New Law School "Mismatch" Data from UCLA Lawprof Richard Sander Josh Blackman (South Texas), Is The DEI Juice Worth The Squeeze? [read post]
16 Mar 2023, 7:08 am by David Bernstein
Excellent substack column by Freddie deBoer, and a great rebuke to those who tendentiously claim that "woke" is a racially tinged slur: [I]t's absurd that so many people pretend not to know what woke means, and the problem could be easily solved if people who support woke politics would adopt a name for others to use. [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]
15 Mar 2023, 6:39 am by David Bernstein
[Not surprisingly, low LSAT scores are strongly correlated with low bar passage rates.] [read post]
14 Mar 2023, 6:58 am by SCOTUSblog
(Stephen Vladeck, The New York Times) The One Key Question No Justice Asked in the Harvard/UNC Affirmative Action Case (David Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy) A new Supreme Court case could be the most important transgender rights decision ever (Ian Millhiser, Vox) The post The morning read for Tuesday, March 14 appeared first on SCOTUSblog. [read post]
14 Mar 2023, 5:49 am by David Bernstein
[Harvard and UNC's defense is based on the perceived need for racial diversity; but how do they justify treating "Hispanic" as a Racial Classification.] [read post]
10 Mar 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Group Seeks Disbarment of a Trump-Aligned Lawyer for a Key Jan. 6 Witness DNyuz – Charlie Savage (New York Times) | Published: 3/6/2023 In appearing before the January 6 committee last year, Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide who recounted Donald Trump’s conduct in the lead-up to the attacks on the Capitol, shared how her original lawyer had tried to influence her testimony. [read post]