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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.

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"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.

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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

Guitar World

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…

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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…

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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…

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‘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.

Al Jazeera

Warner CEO David Zaslav booed at Boston University as writers’ strike boosters picket

About 100 protesters chanted ‘No wages, no pages,’ waved signs and were accompanied by an inflatable rat as law school grad David Zaslav gave his address.

Chicago Sun-Times

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tells law students 'Survivor' offers helpful lessons

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's a “Survivor superfan” and in a commencement address in Washington offered graduating law school students lessons from the reality TV show

The Independent UK

NYC Mayor Eric Adams And I Now Share Something In Common

We were both protested by CUNY Law students.

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New Column in ABA Journal: "Law schools face an inflection point with diversity, equity and inclusion"

"Universities and faculties in particular should take decisive action to prevent future Steinbachs and Eldiks from subverting the core principles of academic inquiry."

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The New York Times Uncovered The Worst-Kept Secret In Academia

Summer study-abroad programs are cushy vacations for students and boondoggles to attract elite faculty.

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Commentary: As elite law schools stifle free speech, University of Chicago shines as an exception

The bedrock principle of free speech is under siege at some of our nation’s leading law schools as U.S. News & World Report unveils its latest law school rankings. Leaders of the very places where constitutional law is taught, where reasoned debate over contentious issues is supposed to be encouraged,…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: At Stanford, a teachable moment on civil discourse is squandered

The ongoing controversy at Stanford University Law School over the student shout-down of a conservative speaker underscores precisely how progressive cancel culture is helping feed exaggerated Republican narratives about progressivism run amok. Republicans are just as guilty of silencing opposing views, as was immediately evident last week in the Tennessee…

The Independent UK

UNC students protest decision to ban 'Cop City' activist

Students at North Carolina’s flagship public university have walked out of class to protest school officials’ decision to ban a law school student from campus

Reason

Law School Free Speech, Wokeness, and "The Etiquette of Equality"

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Apply for the 10th Annual James Wilson Fellowship

"The Institute will make a place for up to 15 Fellows who are law students, clerks, or lawyers and legal academics only a few years out of law school."

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The "Denominator" Problem At Stanford Law School

At what point does a permissible protest turn into unlawful heckling?

Tribune News Service

Justice Thomas’ travels highlight gaps in disclosure rules

WASHINGTON — In 2019, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas publicly disclosed five trips that were paid for by someone else: a series of teaching and speaking engagements at U.S. law schools and colleges. He reported receiving no gifts.

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Justice Thomas’s travels highlight gaps in disclosure rules

In 2019, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas publicly disclosed five trips that were paid for by someone else: a series of teaching and speaking engagements at US law schools and colleges. He reported receiving no gifts.

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Prof. Andrew Koppelman's Thoughts for Law Students, from the Left to the Left

Very well put, I think; an excerpt: The students who disrupt right-wing speakers – the protest against Judge Kyle Duncan, who tried to speak at Stanford Law School, is a prominent recent case – have been appropriately criticized for their obliviousness to the value of free speech. I want to…

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Sam Bankman-Fried using millions sent to Stanford dad to pay for lawyers, report says

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Stanford Law School professor Joseph Bankman is using a “multimillion gift” he received from his embattled son Sam Bankman-Fried to pay for his son’s high-priced legal defense, according to a new report this week.

Daily Mirror

Reeva Steenkamp: The model with a bright future before she was murdered by Oscar Pistorius

Reeva Steenkamp had been a model, a law school graduate and an entrepreneur committed to empowering women — she had her whole life ahead her before she was murdered by Oscar Pistorius

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