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Historic action closes loophole and bolsters Biden administration’s fight against gun violence. Plus: the true price of Indonesia’s booming nickel industry

In a historic achievement, Benard McKinley, 39, was accepted to Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago

Professor Sherry is an emerita professor at Vanderbilt Law School. Back in 1997, she and Professor Daniel Farber wrote a book, Beyond All Reason, critiquing Critical Race Theory. Perhaps their most controversial argument was that Critical Race Theory, in denying that there was such a thing as objective merit, and…

I am the Executive Director of the Scalia Law School's Law & Liberty Center. Our most significant current project at the Center is "Voices for Liberty," which our website describes as follows: "While some view freedom of speech as detrimental to minority groups, others champion it as a necessary condition…

A reply to Prof. Kurt Lash's response to the brief by Profs. Akhil Amar & Vikram Amar.

Today I participated in a Rappaport Forum discussion at Harvard Law School titled "Rule by One Judge: The Question of Universal Injunctions." My fellow participant was Professor Mila Sohoni, and our moderator was Professor Guy-Uriel Charles. It was an excellent discussion, and you can watch it here. Two of the…

This apparently just happened; here's the full American Bar Association standard (and see this ABA Journal article): Standard 208: Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression [a] A law school shall adopt, publish, and adhere to written policies that protect academic freedom. A law school's academic freedom policies shall: [1]​ Apply…

Students protesting against government plans to allow private universities were removed from a law school in Greece. 12 arrests were made, and further demo...

One track became two.

An excerpt from this article in Saturday's New Yorker (the whole thing is much worth reading): Sometime in the twenty-tens, it became common for students to speak of feeling unsafe when they heard things that offended them…. [C]olleagues at other schools [besides the law school] within Harvard and elsewhere feared…

A recent story out of the University of Wisconsin Law School offers an opportunity to consider the potential tensions between mandatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) trainings and academic freedom, particularly in legal education.