The Trump Admin And All Republican States Should Ditch The American Bar Association

With lawyers and judges like those the American Bar Association advances, the United States will quickly discard what's left of our constitutional order.

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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Dimming the Torch: Lousy Law Student Joe Biden Passed Bar Exam on First Try, Unlike Kamala Harris

President Joe Biden was a notoriously bad law student. He failed a torts class after he was caught plagiarizing a paper, and graduated near the bottom of his class—76th of 85—at Syracuse University Law School. But he still managed to pass the Delaware bar exam, considered one of the most difficult in the nation, on his first try. The Delaware bar confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that Biden was admitted in 1968, the same year he graduated.

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Republicans Introduce Bill To Ban DEI in Government, Federal Contracting

Congressional Republicans introduced a bill on Wednesday that would eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion positions in the federal government and bar federal contractors from requiring DEI statements and training sessions. The Dismantle DEI Act, introduced by Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio) and Rep. Michael Cloud (R., Texas), would also bar federal grants from going […]

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The Real Story Behind Columbia’s Controversial Law Review Article—And Why It Matters

Law reviews are typically sleepy, student-edited journals that publish turgid scholarship. The articles may be read by specialists, and they are often read by no one beyond the author and editors. But Columbia University law school’s law review has received a rare burst of public attention this week.

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Columbia Law Review Board Buckles to Student Editors and Publishes Controversial Article

The Columbia Law Review's board of directors buckled to a group of student editors Thursday, restoring the Law Review's website and publishing a controversial article without so much as an editor's note indicating it did not go through the journal's standard editing process.

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Controversial Columbia Law Review Article Subverted Standard Editing Process

A Columbia Law Review article that argues Jews "capitalized on the Holocaust to create a powerful narrative that monopolizes victimhood" was subject to an atypical editing process that omitted "a large number of Jewish students," according to sources familiar with the process.

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