Florida Joins Texas In Ending American Bar Association’s ‘Gatekeeper’ Grip On Law Schools

In a major step toward greater ideological freedom in the legal profession, the state of Florida ended the left-wing American Bar Association’s (ABA) dominance over its law schools on Thursday. In its nine-page order, the Florida Supreme Court revealed that it has amended the state’s bar admissions rule “to end the rule’s reliance on the […]

DEI Should Have Ended Harvard’s ‘Elite’ Status 60 Years Ago (Or More)

Racial discrimination in favor of minorities at so-called elite schools was already widespread by the early 1970s.

Harvard, Columbia Plunge in Law School Rankings Amid Anti-Semitism Backlash

Harvard and Columbia Law Schools both plummeted in the 2025 U.S. News ranking amid ongoing controversies over campus anti-Semitism, while Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas at Austin joined the prestigious "T14" list.

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Trump US Attorney to Georgetown: Scrap DEI or Face Hiring Ban

The interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia is demanding that Georgetown Law School dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, warning that his office will not hire anyone from universities that implement DEI policies.

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A Farewell to Norms

In my second semester of law school, just after the upheavals of 2020, I studied criminal law under a visiting professor whose progressive bona fides were stellar. She was a full-on prison abolitionist who had imbibed and presented for discussion every critical feminist and race theory imaginable. But she was a good teacher and maintained some degree of subtlety that passed for ideological neutrality in an institution where 90 percent of students and faculty agreed with her.

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Penn Professor's Fight for Free Speech Heads to Federal Court

Amy Wax, the tenured law professor who was sanctioned for her controversial remarks about racial issues, sued the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday for breach of contract and race discrimination, putting a dispute over tenure and academic freedom that has dragged on for almost three years into the hands of a federal court. The complaint comes after Wax was suspended for a year at half-pay and stripped of her named chair, penalties the lawsuit says are "illegal multiple times over."

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J.D. Vance Was a Poster Boy for Yale Law School. The School Won’t Congratulate Him on His Victory.

The day after Hillary Clinton was nominated by the Democratic National Committee in 2016,  Yale Law School congratulated Clinton, class of 1973, "on her historic nomination for President of the United States." Eight years later, it is refusing to congratulate J.D. Vance on his actual election.

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