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11 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
In two of my last three Verdict columns (this one and then this one co-authored with Jason Mazzone), I have discussed—in connection with the Supreme Court’s consideration in Trump v. [read post]
24 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
Earlier this month, in Trump v. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we raise and begin to analyze several interesting legal issues raised by the recent decision by a federal district court judge to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Disney Corporation against Florida officials for alleged retaliation (against Disney’s outspoken opposition to certain Florida laws and policies) by altering the structure of the board that regulates the land in which Disney World is located. [read post]
31 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
Last week the Republican National Committee, along with the Republican Party of Mississippi and a few other plaintiffs, filed a federal lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s practice (in accordance with state law) of counting, in elections for members of Congress or presidential electors, mail-in ballots that are postmarked by “Election Day” but received within five business days thereafter. [read post]
27 Jan 2024, 7:54 pm
Professor Jason Mazzone describes the brief as "eye-popping and game-changing. [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
As Professor (and then-Dean) Vikram Amar and Professor Jason Mazzone noted on Verdict, Dean Martinez sensibly committed to educating rather than punishing the students who had disrupted the talk.Dean Martinez’s letter also blamed “staff members who should have enforced university policies [but] failed to do so, and instead intervened in inappropriate ways that are not aligned with the university’s commitment to free speech. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
In an important 1961 article in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel—who was a leading constitutional scholar of his generation—defended the Supreme Court’s exercise of what he called “the passive virtues. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
A recent controversy over an invited-speaker event at the University of Pittsburgh (a public university in Pennsylvania known as “Pitt”) illustrates how both sides in free speech controversies at public universities seem to do and say untenable things, and also how the Supreme Court could improve matters by providing more clarity on key doctrinal and practical questions.The following factual contentions are drawn (and quote) from a demand letter sent to Pitt officials by the Alliance… [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 9:03 pm
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently handed down an important 2-1 ruling in a case involving changes in the admissions policy at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (“Thomas Jefferson” or “TJ”) in Alexandria, Virginia, a public STEM-focused school that has a selective admissions process and that has traditionally served high-performing students. [read post]
4 May 2023, 9:01 pm
That is why Jason and I urged the Court to immediately grant review in a case from Ohio—Huffman v. [read post]
1 May 2023, 7:43 pm
Vik Amar and Jason Mazzone suggest that the Court grant cert. pronto in Huffman v. [read post]
30 Apr 2023, 9:00 pm
On Friday the North Carolina Supreme Court pulled what the Wall Street Journal editorial board called a “switcheroo. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
But as Vikram Amar and Jason Mazzone put it in a Verdictcolumn from which I quoted last week: “[E]ach law school should not merely tolerate but embrace controversial speakers (provided they are serious people and not just incendiary propagandists). [read post]
21 Apr 2023, 10:00 am
ABA Journal, Stanford Law's Black Law Students Association Pulls Out of Recruiting Activities After Federalist Society Event Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois) & Jason Mazzone (Illinois), What Law Students Should Take Away from the Stanford Law School Controversy Involving Disruption of a Federal Judge’s Speech: Part One in a Series,... [read post]
Do Law Schools Truly Have to Worry About Students Not Being Able to Handle Real-World Disagreements?
20 Apr 2023, 10:26 am
In my columns, I cited with approval a two-part Verdict series by Illinois Law's Dean Vikram Amar and his colleague Professor Jason Mazzone. [read post]
20 Apr 2023, 4:00 am
Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois) & Jason Mazzone (Illinois), What Law Students Should Take Away from the Stanford Law School Controversy Involving Disruption of a Federal Judge’s Speech: Part One in a Series: National attention has recently been directed to the boisterous protest by Stanford Law School (SLS) students at... [read post]
19 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
In my column last Thursday, I cited a Verdict column by Illinois Law’s Dean Vik Amar and his colleague Professor Jason Mazzone. [read post]
16 Apr 2023, 9:02 pm
In our first column in this series, we discussed the recent free-speech dustup at Stanford Law School (SLS) and Dean Jenny Martinez’s letter to the SLS community announcing (among other things) that all SLS students would be attending a mandatory half-day education session on freedom of speech and related norms of the legal profession before the end of the academic year. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 6:45 pm
” Law professors Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone have this essay online at Justia’s Verdict. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 10:34 am
Even so, a few reactions to the story have been thoughtful and have even used the controversy to make good points, such as my Verdict colleagues Vik Amar and Jason Mazzone's piece earlier this week (the first of a two-parter, with the second part not yet published), in which they commit the unpardonable sin of observing that "shouting down" a speaker is actually a nuanced issue.I use the sarcastic phrasing "unpardonable sin" because the standard… [read post]
