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Brooklyn’s Michael Cahill Is Tenth Law School Dean To Give At Least $100,000 To Students
Brooklyn Law School, Trailblazing Judge Mary Johnson Lowe '54 Honored with Named Scholarship to Promote Student Diversity and Inclusion: The late Mary Johnson Lowe ’54, the first Black student to serve as editor-in-chief of the Brooklyn Law Review and the second Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary, has been honored with a new scholarship…
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Dorothy Brown Leaves Emory For Georgetown
Dorothy Brown (Emory; Google Scholar) has accepted a tenured lateral offer from Georgetown: Dorothy A. Brown is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law and an advocate for economic and social justice. She is the author of The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans — And…
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SSRN Restores Paper By Ann Lipton (Tulane) Previously Removed Due To Defamation Claim; Law Review Has Not Withdrawn Its Publication Offer
Following up on Monday's post: Jonathan Adler (Case Western) reports that SSRN has now restored the article and the Houston Law Review has not withdrawn its offer of publication.
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ABA Approves Mandatory Bias Training Beginning In Fall 2022 By 95%|5% Vote
Reuters, U.S. Law Students to Receive Anti-Bias Training After ABA Passes New Rule: The American Bar Association will require law schools to educate students about bias, racism and cross-cultural competency, possibly as soon as the next academic year. The ABA’s House of Delegates on Monday approved changes to its law school accreditation standards, including a mandate that law…
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ABA Approves Revisions To Accreditation Standards Relating To Curriculum, Student Loans, And Student Wellness
ABA Journal, Loan Counseling and Cross-Cultural Competency Programing Will Be Required From ABA-accredited Law Schools: A package of proposed revisions to the ABA law school accreditation standards, including two focused on diversity, were approved Monday by the ABA House of Delegates at the 2022 ABA Midyear Meeting. Resolution 300, which passed with a 348 to…
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Legal Ed News Roundup
ABA Journal, Legal Employment Has Broken Pre-Pandemic Records ABA Journal, Scammers Use Albany Law School Name in Check-Fraud Ruse Above the Law, Georgetown Law Really Has A Knack For Casual Racism Above the Law, Law Schools Persecuting Professors By *CHECKS NOTES* Offering Unrelated Classes That Mention Racism Above the Law, Law Students And Young Associates…
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SSRN Removes Paper By Ann Lipton (Tulane) Due To Defamation Claim; Law Review May Rescind Publication Offer
Jonathan Adler (Case Western), SSRN Removes Academic Paper Due to Defamation Claim: Professor Ann Lipton, a noted corporate law scholar at Tulane, has a new paper, “Capital Discrimination”, discussing gender discrimination in business disputes. When she completed her draft she posted the article on SSRN and submitted it law reviews, as one does, and received an offer…
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NY Times: Yale To Evaluate Policies On Donor Gifts And Influence
New York Times, Yale to Evaluate Policies on Donor Gifts and Influence: Four months after reports that the head of one its most prestigious programs had abruptly resigned, Yale University is forming a committee to review its gift policies to ensure that academic freedom would be safeguarded from undue donor influence. The committee, whose creation…
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Pepperdine Announces New $5 Million Brenden Mann Chair In Law & Religion; Michael Helfand Named Inaugural Chairholder
Pepperdine Caruso School of Law Announces Newly Endowed Brenden Mann Chair in Law and Religion: The Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law announced the newly endowed Brenden Mann Chair in Law and Religion supported by a generous $2.5 million commitment from the Brenden Mann Foundation. Pepperdine will match this gift as part of the University's…
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Court TV: Law Professor Murder For Hire
Following up on last week's post, The Dan Markel Murder Case: Is Wendi Adelson Now A Suspect?: Court TV, On the Docket: Law Professor Murder For Hire: Katherine Magbanua faces retrial in the alleged murder-for-hire killing of FSU professor Dan Markel. She is set to stand trial May 13.
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Hamburger & Volokh Debate: Are Law School Deans, Faculty, And Students Who Stifle Opposing Views Unfit Ever To Be Judges?
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Intolerant Lawyers Shouldn’t Be Judges, by Philip Hamburger (Columbia): Law school deans, faculty and students who stifle opposing views are unfit ever to sit on the bench. What should be done about law-school deans and others in legal institutions who censor, cancel, blacklist, refuse to hire, fire, “investigate” and otherwise threaten…
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Subpoena For Trump Lawyer John Eastman’s Documents On Chapman’s Server Highlights Risk Of Faculty Use Of Law School Accounts For Personal Email
ABA Journal, Chapman University Says It Didn’t Authorize Law Prof’s Representation of Trump, Yet Work Was on Server: Law professors often use school emails when representing clients, but they may want to rethink that, following a recent subpoena sent to Chapman University from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack,…
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More Black Women Are Leading U.S. Law Schools And Changing The Conversation On Race And Gender
The 19th News, More Black Women Are Leading U.S. Law Schools and Changing the Conversation on Race and Gender: A rising cohort of new leaders want to help their institutions better understand the country’s history and how it inextricably shapes the law today. … Last year, the number of Black women leading American law schools…
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WSJ Op-Ed: Why Colleges (And Law Schools) Don’t Care About Free Speech—And How To Make Them Care
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Why Colleges Don’t Care About Free Speech, by John Hasnas (Georgetown): Georgetown University’s law school violated its own speech policy last week when it placed Ilya Shapiro, a newly hired administrator, on leave over a tweet that offended some students. Why do universities make grandiloquent commitments to freedom of speech, then…
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Legal Ed News Roundup
ABA Journal, Acing the Exam: Kellye Testy Made Sure the Pandemic Wouldn’t Disrupt Law School Admissions Process ABA Journal, In Federal Complaint, UIC Law Professor Claims 'Sensitivity Training' Violates His Civil Rights ABA Journal, Jurisdictions Hope Safety Plans Curb COVID-19 Fears For In-Person Bar Exam Above the Law, Bar Tabs: Legal Career Advice, Served Neat…
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ABA Legal Rebel: Kellye Testy
ABA Legal Rebels, Acing the Exam: Kellye Testy Made Sure the Pandemic Wouldn’t Disrupt Law School Admissions Process: In February 2020, many people didn’t realize—or perhaps acknowledge—the world was entering a global pandemic. But Kellye Testy, president and CEO of the Law School Admission Council, did, and she was thinking the organization’s traditional in-person LSAT…
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Turley: New Disclosures Undermine Defenses Of Emory Law Journal’s Withdrawal Of Larry Alexander’s Publication Offer
Following up on my previous posts (links below): Jonathan Turley (George Washington), “A Prudential Matter”: New Disclosures Undermine Defenses of Emory Law Journal’s Withdrawal of Publication Offer: A recent publication by Louis Bonham added new information to the controversy over Emory Law Journal withdrawing an offer of publication for San Diego’s Warren Distinguished Professor of Law Larry Alexander due…
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The Dan Markel Murder Case: Is Wendi Adelson Now A Suspect?
Following up on last week's post, Feb. 14 Dan Markel Murder Trial Postponed Until May To Give CIA Analyst Time To Analyze Recording Of Conversation Between Katherine Magbanua And Charlie Adelson: David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), The Dan Markel Case: Justice Delayed, Again: And another interesting development: is Wendi Adelson now a suspect? It’s hard to…
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Law Students Face Mandatory Bias Training Beginning In Fall 2022 Under Proposed ABA Diversity Accreditation Requirement
Karen Sloan (Reuters), Law Students Face Mandatory Bias Training Under Proposed ABA Rule: Law schools would have to train students in bias, racism and crosscultural competency under a proposal before the American Bar Association’s policymaking body this month. The ABA’s House of Delegates on Feb. 14 will consider a series of changes to its law school accreditation…
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NY Times Columnists Agree: Georgetown Law School Should Not Punish Ilya Shapiro For His Tweets
Michelle Goldberg, Georgetown Law, Don’t Punish Your New Hire Over His ‘Lesser Black Woman’ Tweet: Georgetown’s law school — where Shapiro was to serve as a senior lecturer and executive director of its Center for the Constitution — overreacted, placing Shapiro on leave pending an investigation into whether his tweets violated school policies on professional conduct, discrimination…
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Leiter: Keith Whittington (Princeton) On Academic Freedom And The Work Of The Academic Freedom Alliance
Brian Leiter (Chicago), Keith Whittington (Princeton) on Academic Freedom and the Work of the Academic Freedom Alliance: An illuminating Twitter thread here, that deserves to be widely read.
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UCLA Students Lead Strike, Sit-In To Protest Return To In-Person Classes
Los Angeles Times, UCLA Students Stage Sit-In, Demand Online Options as UC In-Person Return Sparks Division: UCLA students staged a sit-in Monday to demand continued online learning options as the University of California’s reopening of classrooms amid the continuing pandemic sparked widespread division over remote vs. in-person instruction. After a largely in-person fall term, the…
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More Commentary On The Ilya Shapiro Controversy At Georgetown
ABA Journal, Georgetown Law Places New Hire on Administrative Leave After 'Lesser Black Woman' Tweet Above the Law, Supreme Court Vacancy Inspires All Sorts Of Awful Academic Freedom Alliance, Letter to Georgetown Law on Ilya Shapiro (press release) Business Insider, Georgetown Law Students Staged a Sit-In to Demand Firing Of Academic Who Said Biden Would…
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Stanford Provides Additional Support For Untenured Faculty During COVID — Will Other Universities Follow Suit?
Inside Higher Ed, More Support for COVID-19–Affected Professors: Two years into the pandemic, Stanford University is offering junior faculty members another pretenure year or an additional quarter of research leave, plus childcare and research grants. Will other institutions follow suit? Most institutions stopped junior faculty members’ tenure clocks for a semester or two when COVID-19…
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COVID-19 Tuition Refund Fights Heat Up In Appeals Courts
National Law Journal, 'Watching the Outcome Like a Hawk': COVID-19 Tuition Refund Fights Heat Up in Appeals Courts: After failures in district courts, a handful of students have taken their COVID-19 tuition refund fights to appellate courts in cases that are being closely watched by the higher education community. Many of the lawsuits, alleging universities…