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Teen Who Lost Arm From Cancer Studied During Chemo, Gets Law School Grades

A teen who underwent chemotherapy received the grades required to pursue law at the university level.

Zenger

The kingmaking Trump ally behind a cadre of rightwing judges

Aileen Cannon, the judge assigned to the documents case, is under increasing scrutiny – reflecting Leonard Leo’s impact on the US judiciary

The Guardian - US

Charles Ogletree, longtime legal and civil rights scholar at Harvard Law School, dies at 70

Charles Ogletree taught Barack and Michelle Obama and represented Tupac Shakur, Anita Hill and survivors of the 1921 massacre of Tulsa’s Black community.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Noted defense attorney Charles Ogletree dies

Harvard Law School professor and noted defense attorney Charles Ogletree has died at age 70.

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Charles Ogletree, longtime legal and civil rights scholar at Harvard Law School, dies at 70

Law professor and civil rights scholar Charles J

The Independent UK

How Patience Changed My Life Forever

We all know how patience can pay off in investing and saving for retirement. For this longtime Kiplinger contributor, patience also led him to the love of his life. It all started with a watermelon…

Kiplinger

Columbia Law School Posts, then Retracts, Video Statement Requirement for Applicants

Aaron Sibarium reports for the Free Beacon: "All applicants will be required to submit a short video, no longer than 90 seconds, addressing a question chosen at random," the school's admissions page said Monday morning. "The video statement will allow applicants to provide the Admissions Committee with additional insight into…

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Centre for Insolvency and Bankruptcy to be set up at ICFAI Law school

The Hindu

Inclusion should be a matter of policy

Because people with disabilities should not be dependent on the kindness of others even for basic needs

The Hindu

Big investors take away jobs in unorganised sector, says Chandrashekhar

Delivering a talk on ‘Marginalisation and Social Exclusion in the Unorganised Sector’ at Kuvempu University on Friday, R.V. Chandrashekhar, Coordinator of Talasamudaya Adhyayana Kendra at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, said 93% of the workforce in the country was in the unorganised sector.

The Hindu

Advice to Entering Law Students—2023

Some ideas that might help you make better use of the opportunities available to you in law school.

Reason

‘Fighter for freedom’: Kamala Harris praises legacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson at Rainbow PUSH Coalition convention

Vice President Harris said that when she was in law school in the 1980s, she had a ‘Jesse Jackson for President’ bumper sticker on her car.

Chicago Sun-Times

Justices teach when the Supreme Court isn't in session. It can double as an all-expenses-paid trip

Teaching is encouraged as a way to demystify the Supreme Court while exposing the justices to a cross-section of the public

The Independent UK

NLSIU Infosys Digital Library Fellowships for law students

In association with Infosys Foundation, the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) is offering a one-year digital library fellowship to law students between August 15, 2023, to August 15, 2024. The ‘NLSIU Infosys Digital Library Fellowships’ will be awarded to at least 100 students currently studying law in India,…

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Laxer punishment given to CPD officers who went into Bobby Rush’s office raises questions about the arbitration process

“This is a system that has been under the public radar for such a long time,” said Craig B. Futterman, a founder and director of the University of Chicago Law School’s Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project.

The Independent UK

Ex-Trump lawyer says evidence in indictment is like ‘a gun with Trump’s fingerprints on it’

Former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz says that he will not represent Trump in this case

Tribune News Service

Sins of the father: The pain and privilege of being Buster Murdaugh

COLUMBIA, S.C. — It was impossible to know what Buster Murdaugh was thinking. After six weeks of testimony, a jury was preparing to deliver its verdict against his father, Alex Murdaugh, a prominent former attorney accused of murdering Buster’s mother and brother.

Reason

"We the People" Podcast on AI Libel, with Prof. Lyrissa Lidsky, Prof. Jeff Rosen, and Me

The podcast is from the National Constitutional Center; Jeff Rosen, who's a professor at the George Washington University law school, is the NCC's head (and a noted author and journalist). Lyrissa Lidsky is a co-Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of Torts: Defamation and Privacy, the former dean…

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An Embarrassingly Unbalanced Law School Webinar on Affirmative Action

Seattle University is hosting eleven speakers for the webinar, all of whom support racial preferences.

Guitar World

Meet Dante Frisiello, Steve Vai's new guitar sideman who went from law school to playing with his hero

The guitarist reflects on his disastrous solo on the first night of his new gig, the hardest part about playing with one of the world's leading virtuosos, and why the Abasi Larada is his favorite guitar he's ever played

Reason

The Hidden Life of Law School Adjuncts: Teaching Temps, Indispensable Instructors, Underappreciated Cash Cows, or Something Else?

That's the title of a new piece that Markus Funk,* Andrew S. Boutros,** and I*** have forthcoming in the Texas Law Review Online Edition. You can read it in PDF, or below; we still have plenty of time to edit it, so we'd love to see any corrections or suggestions.…

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Graduation Speeches, "Hate Speech," and the CUNY Law Controversy

There's been a good deal of comment about the City University of New York law school student graduation speaker (Fatima Mousa Mohammed) who devoted a good deal of her speech to harshly condemning Israel and "Zionism," as well as capitalism, the New York government, and America more generally. (I include…

Reason

Ex-San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin Appointed Director of Berkeley Law's new Criminal Law & Justice Center

Chesa Boudin graduated Yale Law School in 2011. After two judicial clerkships bracketing a year as a post-doc fellow (!!??) at the San Francisco DA's office and several years practicing criminal law as a public defender, he ran successfully for San Francisco DA as a left-wing anti-racist reformist candidate. His…

Reason

Beyond Textualism? on SSRN

A few months ago I linked to a lecture called "Beyond Textualism?" that I gave at Harvard Law School in the "Scalia Lecture" series -- on what the core insight of textualism is and how we might extend it even in cases where the text itself is silent. I now…

Al Jazeera

‘Bullying’ campaign after US graduate speech criticises Israel

Politicians from both US major parties condemn CUNY Law graduation address by young woman critical of Israeli policies.

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