The Latest Breaking News from Law School

Court Orders Reinstatement of Law Student Expelled for Writing "[W]hatever Harvard Professor Noel Ignatiev Meant by … '[A]bolish the White Race by Any Means Necessary' … Must Be Done with Jews"

An excerpt from today's long opinion by Chief Judge Allen Winsor (N.D. Fla.) in Damsky v. Summerlin, which I think… The post Court Orders Reinstatement of Law Student Expelled for Writing "[W]hatever Harvard Professor Noel Ignatiev Meant by … '[A]bolish the White Race by Any Means Necessary' … Must Be…

Reason · Nov 24, 2025

Nuremberg trial records made available online after painstaking 25-year project

Launch of digitisation project marks 80th anniversary of start of legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice

The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2025

Trump claims conspiracy over daughter Tiffany’s Covid-canceled Georgetown graduation ceremony

Trump also appeared to embellish his daughter’s academic achievements, based on a review of Georgetown Law School’s public records

The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2025

As Gen Z faces the white collar freeze in hiring, law and business school applications are soaring

Gen Z is rushing back to the classroom to dodge AI disruption as law-school applications have jumped 33% compared to this time last year.

Fortune · Oct 28, 2025

Two Federal Judges Apologize For Issuing Opinions With AI Hallucinations

An intern and a law clerk used generative AI, and the judges didn't catch the hallucinations.

Reason · Oct 24, 2025

https://law.yale.edu/animals/people

For a delightful moment, I thought Yale Law School decided to set up its naming hierarchy with animals on top,… The post https://law.yale.edu/animals/people appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · Oct 20, 2025

New student loan limits could change who gets to become a professor, doctor or lawyer

As millions of student loan borrowers settle into the school year, many are stressed about how they’ll pay for their degrees. These students may find that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the big tax and spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law over the summer, could limit…

The Conversation · Oct 14, 2025

Supreme Court of Texas Likely to Remove ABA as "Final Say" on Accreditation

"The Court is of the tentative opinion that the ABA should no longer have the final say on whether a law school’s graduates are eligible to sit for the Texas bar exam and become licensed to practice law in Texas."

Reason · Sep 28, 2025

Millionaire Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House and decided he was ‘gonna invent a career'—he founded Reddit

Reddit, now worth more than $40 billion, would have never happened without Alexis Ohanian ditching law school in favor of entrepreneurship.

Fortune · Aug 27, 2025

ABA Releases "Core Principles and Values of Law School Accreditation"

Does this standard create room for ideological diversity?

Reason · Aug 25, 2025