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U. Michigan Law Prof Thinks Trump ‘Could be Charged With Manslaughter’ Over January 6th

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 27, 2022 11 Comments

"And so Donald Trump, unlike most ordinary citizens, has not only a duty not to do something bad, but an affirmative duty to take action to protect people."...

Pushback Mounts Against American Bar Association Plan To Ditch Required Standardized Admissions Testing

Posted by Johanna Markind on September 06, 2022 17 Comments

Law school deans and LIF head William Jacobson all oppose dropping the LSAT/GRE as making it harder for schools to identify qualified applicants, minority or other. Is that why ABA wants to get rid of it?...

Study Finds Only Nine Percent of Law Professors Identify as Conservative

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 02, 2022 5 Comments

"with 77.9 percent identifying as liberal"...

How A Weak Penn Law Dean Weaponized Student Hurt Feelings Against Dissident Prof. Amy Wax

Posted by Jane Coleman on August 23, 2022 34 Comments

Wax: Dean Ted Ruger "has the power to shut it all down in a second...

Georgetown Law Prof Slammed for Calling Supreme Court ‘Actively Rogue’

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 12, 2022 3 Comments

"This is a breathtaking thread from a law professor"...

Jewish Students/Faculty Complain to American Bar Ass’n that CUNY Law School Discriminates With Pervasive “Anti-Zionist” Anti-Semitism

Posted by Johanna Markind on July 12, 2022 10 Comments

The complaint letter charges CUNY Law discriminates against students, faculty, other employees, and prospective students, faculty, and employees, and that the law school faculty’s recently-adopted BDS policy puts the school out of compliance with ABA req'ts. Meanwhile, NYC Council Higher Ed Committee grills CUNY over...

Ilya Shapiro Resigns From Georgetown Law, Blames Dean William Treanor For Embracing Anti-Free Expression “Hostile Work Environment”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2022 18 Comments

"Dean William Treanor cleared me on the technicality that I wasn’t an employee when I tweeted, but the [DEI Office] implicitly repealed Georgetown’s Speech and Expression Policy and set me up for discipline the next time I transgress progressive orthodoxy. Instead of participating in that...

Ilya Shapiro Returning To Georgetown Law After Suspension Over SCOTUS Nomination Tweet Lifted

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 02, 2022 7 Comments

Not surprisingly, Georgetown's Dean William Treanor took the cowardly way out. Rather than owning up to Georgetown's error, Treanor ended the punishment based on a finding that because the tweet took place pre-employment, it was not properly the subject of discipline. Treanor repeated the absurd...

Georgetown Law Prof Supports Mobs Protesting at Homes of SCOTUS Justices

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 12, 2022 9 Comments

“when the mob is right, some (but not all!) more aggressive tactics are justified. When not, not.”...

Debate: Should American Bar Association Be Stripped Of Its Monopoly Law School Accrediting Power?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2022 23 Comments

This morning at 10:40 a.m. through Noon I'll be participating in a panel discussion at The Federalist Society conference on whether the American Bar Association should be stripped of its monopoly power on accrediting law schools in light of mandates recently passed requiring, among other things, race-focused study for law students, and a pending proposal for "equity" focused education initiatives for students and faculty.

“The Floor Was Shaking” – Yale Law School Speaker Disruption Worse Than Originally Reported

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2022 38 Comments

David Lat: "Students in Federal Courts, across the hall from the event, reported that 'the floor was shaking' and Professor Resnik asked on-call students to 'yell' so they could be heard over the din."...

Conservative Speaker Targeted at Yale Law School: “This wasn’t a protest. This was physical intimidation”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2022 29 Comments

Kristen Waggoner of Alliance Defending Freedom: "These students were not only physically intimidating the other students and the speakers, they were pounding on the walls, blocking the exits, and disrupting the event throughout"...

Yale Law Students Disrupt, Try To Intimidate Conservative Speaker

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2022 54 Comments

This is just more evidence of the decline of legal education and the collapse of values. "Social justice" and feelings trump free speech and debate....

Nineteen UC-Hastings Law Faculty Object To University Statement In Support Of Free Speech After Ilya Shapiro Shoutdown

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2022 22 Comments

"the Administration's community email, The College is Committed to Academic Freedom and Free Speech, does not represent our priorities"...

Ilya Shapiro Shouted Down, Prevented From Speaking At UC-Hastings Law School: “Get Out!”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2022 104 Comments

Relentless pounding on tables and yelling caused event to be halted: "We want you off this campus, that's what we want...

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Appeals Court Judge James Ho: “if Ilya Shapiro is deserving of cancellation, then you should go ahead and cancel me too”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2022 33 Comments

Responding to Georgetown Law cancel culture: "I stand with Ilya on the paramount importance of color-blindness. And that same principle should apply ...

American Bar Association Abusing Its Accreditation Power To Force Race-Focused Study On Law Students

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2022 24 Comments

The American Bar Association once was a proxy for the American legal community. That was long, long ago. It has since moved to the left in many ways, so much so that Republicans now reject reliance on ABA judicial-nominee evaluations and ratings. ABA is just another group captured by the long march through institutions.

Prof. Glenn Loury’s “Ilya Shapiro Moment” – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion “at the US Supreme Court is a very bad idea”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2022 9 Comments

"Sorry, but practicing "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" at the US Supreme Court is a very bad idea. The Court should not be thought of as a 'representative' institution. So, go ahead and cancel me, too, for my 'Ilya Shapiro moment'!"...

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