Author: Jeremy Paul
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Book of the Week
Following up on his insightful and controversial testimony before President Biden’s Commission on the Supreme Court, Professor Nikolas Bowie has teamed with his Harvard Law School colleague Daphna Renan to provide us this week with Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People. The authors’ thoughtful critique of judicial review goes far…
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New Law School Planned in Austin
Following up on Kevin Johnson’s post from earlier today, here’s what The Austin American-Statesman reports about the University of Austin’s, (sometimes referred to as UATX) plans to launch a new law school as soon as 2028. As Dean Johnson noted, UATX will eschew ABA accreditation. Time to degree will be shorter. Practicing lawyers and judges…
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On-Line JD Programs Advance
Christie Melendez offers this useful summary of the many schools now offering on-line JD programs of one sort or another. She explains different categories of school, how ABA approvals differ, and which schools offer which sort of program. We face a rapidly changing landscape and this helps readers keep up. Alas, I fear only Linkedin…
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The OSU Headed Downtown
Ohio State’s Moritz College of Law has agreed to move its campus to the historic Huntington Buiding in downtown Columbus. Opening is slated for Fall 2029. The facility is striking, and students will gain from easy access to courts and prominent legal employers. And even off the main campus, legal Buckeyes will still have carte…
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Correction – President Hoffer
My post last Friday congratulating Melissa Hoffer on her new leadership position at Vermont Law and Graduate School misstated her title and, in one of three places, misspelled her name. Melissa Hoffer is the incoming president of Vermont Law and Graduate School. The school’s announcement of the good news should be here, although I cannot…
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Book of the Week
Julie C. Suki, Leonard F. Manning Professor of Law at Fordham University in her new book The Shadow Court offers a novel approach to the U.S. Supreme Court’s current monopoly on constitutional interpretation. Prof. Suk suggests Congress create an additional constitutional court, what she calls a Shadow Court, that would rule on contested constitutional questions…
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Holding Law Enfocement Accountable
When federal officers break the law, how can state prosecutors hold them accountable for criminal conduct? Since this past spring, a team of law students, led by Professor Emerita Deborah Ramirez, has been building the answer through the Roadmap Project, an initiative of the Criminal Justice Task Force at Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR). The goal…
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Melissa Hoffer Named President at Vermont Law and Graduate School
Vermont Law and Graduate School’s press release announcing President Hoffer’s appointment is here. As the first ever climate chief in Massachusetts and former Acting General Counsel of the EPA under President Biden, President Hoffer is the perfect choice to lead Vermont Law School which has long earned a place as one of the top law…
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Book of the Week
David Dyzenhaus, University Professor and Albert Abel Professor of Law at the University of Toronto offers this thoughtful new monograph from Cambridge University Press, In The War Against Law: What’s Wrong with Common Good Constitutionalism, Dyzenhaus sounds the alarm about where the ideology of an unchecked executive branch is truly headed. His examples are British…
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Wisdom of the Ages
As another school year commences, Stanford’s Orin Kerr shares with us these remarks from the legendary Learned Hand made in 1958 reflecting back on his student days in the 1890’s. As Professor Kerr prescribes “Go ye and do likewise.”.
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AccesLex Joins the Blog Party
I missed this announcement that AccessLex had launched its own blog on legal education, with the site’s customary emphasis on finance but containing a host of other stories of interest to our readers. I came across the site this week and noted a host of strong content with an article focused on the important question…
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Book of the Week
Renowned historian, Kim Phillips-Fein is out with a new book exploring the longstanding counter tradition in U.S. history that rejects the premise of the Declaration of Independence and proudly proclaims that all men are NOT created equal. In Country of Lords, from W.W. Norton & Co., Professor Phillips-Fein, Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T Jackson Professor of History…
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Health Law Rankings
PreLaw Magazine is out with its honor roll of schools with thriving health law programs. It’s exciting to see so many schools doing such innovative and valuable work. Of course, I’m particularly proud of Northeastern and the program featured here focused on gambling addiction and our Salus Populi program educating judges about the social determinants…
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From Cradle to Big Law
Financial Times reports briefly on a phenomenon I know we are all seeing. Large law firms are recruiting our students for 2L Summer jobs during 1L Fall before they even have their first set of grades. This is crazy,sure. But it also places an absurd premium on educational pedigree and background over actual performance. Law…
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Who Finds the Facts
Duncan Hosie, Fellow at Stanford Law School,, offers this powerful critique in the Atlantic of the Supreme Court’s decision this week to allow President Trump’s Administration to proceed, for now, with its assault on mail-in voting. Hosie’s broader point, with significance for all of us trying to explain to students how our legal system finds…
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Book of the Week
Our colleague, Kent Greenfield, Professor of Law at Boston College Law School has penned Secession due out this January from Harper Collins and available for pre-order now. The title is self-explanatory, as Professor Greenfield contends both that secession is a good idea and that it can be accomplished peacefully. This is a very tough sell.…
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Why Be an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Mary Algero, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and former Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Academic Affairs at Loyola University, New Orleans College of Law has taken time to provide a thoughtful account of why someone might wish to serve in the role of associate dean for academic affairs and how one might make good…
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Cheers for the NextGen Bar Exam
CUNY’s former dean, Mary Lu Bilek and Marsha Griggs, Professor of Law at Saint Louis University write jointly for Bloomberg News that our profession should not allow the technical failures that arose in the administration of the NextGen Bar Exam in Washington State and elsewhere to distract us from the many ways this new exam…
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Book of the Week
Daron Acemoglu, Nobel prize winner, and author of the renowned, Why Nations Fail adds to his formidable body of work, this new title, What Happened to Liberal Democracy, exploring how liberalism failed to adapt to its ascendancy as the world’s dominant political philosophy and thus may have inadvertently sewed the seeds of its own decline.…
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A Changing Bench
President Trump announced today his intention to nominate Lee Rudofsky, now a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. If confirmed, Judge Rudofsky would create the first U.S. Court of Appeals with a majority of active judges appointed by President Trump. Judge Rudofsky…
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Feds Move Against Diversity Scholarships
The U.S. government, via the Department of Labor, has long worked with the State of Minnesota to maintain a Website called CarrerOneStop, which, among other things, allows students to find a variety of available scholarship all in one place. Now, as reported in the Washington Post, the Federal Government is moving to end its relationship…
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Book of the Week
Oxford University Press announces the publication of the second volume of Constitutional Democracy in Crisis edited by our colleagues, Mark Graber (Maryland), Mark Tushnet (Harvard), Sanford Levinson (Texas), and Antonia Barragia (University of Milan). You can find the table of contents here. It’s a star-studded line-up addressing the crucial issues of our time. A must…
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Worst of the Worst????
The International Academy of Trial Lawyers has condemned statements by James Percival, Department of Homeland Security General Counsel, which single out for criticism federal district judges who have ruled against the Administration. He has a posted “worst of the worst” list of judges, parodying lists already created to vilify violent criminals. Such flagrant attacks on…
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Moot Court Rankings
The National Jurist has published a ranking of the moot court programs at various law schools. You can find it here.
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Never Too Late for Law School
This story about Libby Downey, an 88 year-old woman who is enrolled in law school at Monterey College of Law was just too heartwarming to ignore. She’s starting with a master’s in legal studies but then …. ? Ms. Downey, you are an inspiration to us all.