The Latest Breaking News from Law School

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 · Sep 22, 2022

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 · Sep 14, 2022

How Justice Scalia created this chaos

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

Salon · Sep 11, 2022

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 · Aug 11, 2022

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 · Aug 9, 2022

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 · Aug 5, 2022

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 · Aug 2, 2022

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 · Jul 28, 2022

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 · Jul 27, 2022

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 · Jul 20, 2022