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Chicago’s newest City Council member: Just call him ‘Timmy’

The name was part of an emotional and potentially high-risk coming out for Timmy Knudsen after he graduated law school and joined a buttoned-down Chicago firm he was not at all certain would welcome an openly-gay attorney.

Chicago Sun-Times

Justice Kagan warns Supreme Court can’t be seen as political

Speaking at Northwestern Law School, Kagan said the Supreme Court’s legitimacy can be questioned if it is seen as “spoiling for trouble.”

Chicago Sun-Times

How Justice Scalia created this chaos

Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky on the incoherent, dishonest ideology that has warped the Supreme Court

Salon

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Some "Classified" Events

Some upcoming events, plus a new review and a podcast.

Reason

Reports detail how Haiti’s public administration is a cesspool of corruption

Fictitious government jobs and contracts, political patronage, embezzlement, and university employees and civil servants who use government bank accounts as their personal checkbooks.

Miami Herald

National law school for NK region being contemplated: Bommai

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The Hindu

Advice to Entering Law Students - 2022

Some ideas that might help you make better use of the opportunities available to you in law school.

Reason

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Brazil manifestos seek to rein in Bolsonaro before election

Brazilians poured into the University of Sao Paulo’s law school to hear a manifesto denouncing the brutal military dictatorship and calling for a prompt return of the rule of law

The Independent UK

Noah Feldman: There's a lot of Harvard and Yale on the Supreme Court. And that's OK

Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices went to Harvard or Yale law schools. So did nearly a fifth of the federal judiciary. This rankles some politicians, watchdog groups and others who see it as an outrageous manifestation of elitism that needs to be changed, given how much power this…

Tribune News Service

Reasons Not to Limit Private-Employer-Imposed Speech Restrictions: The Employer's Own Free Speech Rights?

As I mentioned earlier this week, ten years ago I wrote a descriptive and analytical law review article called Private Employees' Speech and Political Activity: Statutory Protection Against Employer Retaliation, which aimed to catalog these often-little-known statutes. This year, I'm returning to the subject, trying to analyze the strongest arguments…

Reason

A Judge Sent Kris Kobach Back to Law School. Now He Wants To Be Kansas' Attorney General.

Kobach did such a poor job defending his state's immigration law, the judge sentenced him to remedial law courses.

Reason

Justice Clarence Thomas backs out of teaching law school class after outcry at overturning of Roe v Wade

Justice Thomas has taught a seminar at George Washington University Law School since 2011

The Independent UK

Justice Thomas cancels plans to teach at DC law school

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has backed out of teaching a seminar at George Washington University’s law school in the nation’s capital, following student protests and the university’s statement of support for the conservative justice’s role on campus

The Independent UK

Biden must cancel all student loan debt, including for those with graduate degrees

Politicians argue that canceling student debt will mainly benefit doctors and lawyers. But it is first-generation graduates of color who are struggling to make payments

The Guardian - US

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Penn law dean seeks ‘major sanction’ against professor Amy Wax

Controversial University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, whose “racist speech” and inflammatory comments have long generated criticism, once allegedly suggested that it was “rational” to fear Black men in elevators and that Mexican males were more likely than other men to assault women.

Reason

Stephen Carter Makes the Case for Barring the Bar Exam

The famous columnist and Yale Law School professor points out that the case made against other standardized tests, such as the LSAT, also applies to bar exams.

Reason

No-Contact Order Against Law Students (and Professor) Based on Conversation About Homosexuality and Bible …

likely unconstitutional, holds a federal district court.

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George Washington U. Rejects Requests to Stop Justice Thomas's Co-Teaching of Law School Class

Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) passes along this e-mail from the GWU Provost and Law School Dean, which I applaud: Dear Members of the George Washington University Community, Since the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, we have heard from members of our community who have expressed…

Tribune News Service

From an SC jail, Alex Murdaugh tried to get his son back into law school

Sitting in the Richland County jail on financial fraud charges, once powerful Lowcountry lawyer Alex Murdaugh fretted about getting his surviving son, Buster, back into the University of South Carolina’s law school.

The Times of India

Bengaluru: National Law School of India University alumni angry over action on duo

BENGALURU: The alumni of National Law School of India University (NLSIU) have criticised the institute for taking action against two members of its sexual harassment inquiry committee. The two are said to have shared with other students of the varsity the ordeal of a survivor in a sexual harassment case.

The Guardian - AU

From Vanuatu law school to the Hague: the fight to recognise climate harm in international law

Vanuatu is leading a campaign to have the international court of justice issue an opinion on climate change – which could have huge legal ramifications

The Independent UK

Camille Vasquez gushes about being an ‘inspiration’ to women going to law school after Johnny Depp trial

Camille Vasquez spoke out on ABC’s GMA on Wednesday morning where she told host George Stephanopoulos that it was ‘overwhelming’ to have become a social media star during the bombshell case

Reason

Ilya Shapiro Resigns From Georgetown University Law School

"Further analysis shows that you’ve made it impossible for me to fulfill the duties of my appointed post," writes Shapiro.

Reason

Ilya Shapiro Reinstated at Georgetown Law, then Resigns

The law school reinstated him on a technicality, but made it clear that they weren't going to uphold the university's free speech policy.

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