Minority Issues
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Cardozo Law School, Jews, Law Schools, Minority Issues, Religion
Anti-Semitism and the Sun God Ra Afflict New York Area Law Schools
The new school year is off to a rocky start at Cardozo and NYU Law. One school is dealing with a rash of anti-Semitism, while the other can’t seem to execute basic building maintenance. If you had to guess which school was dealing with hate speech against Jews, you’d guess Cardozo, right? Since Cardozo is […] -
Civil Rights, Food, Lawsuit of the Day, Minority Issues, Racism, Weirdness
Lawsuit of the Day: White Man Claims BBQ Joint Violates His Civil Rights
This one is going to get really weird, really quickly. See if you can spot the civil rights violation. Issue 1: City council of Alexandria, Virginia, approves a permit for a new barbecue restaurant. Issue 2: The restaurant will have an open-air, gas grille. Did you see the potential violation? No? Well, you’re just not […] - Sponsored
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Deferral Stipend, Gender, Minority Issues, Start Dates, Summer Associates, Women's Issues
Let's Do This: Deferred (Then Rescinded) Would-Be Associate Sues Firm
This was bound to happen at some point. There have been countless associates who were promised jobs at law firms. They stopped looking for other jobs in reliance on that job offer. Then during the recession they were deferred, or their offers were rescinded. They are the leading citizens of the Lost Generation. Do they […]
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Harvard Law Review, Law Reviews, Law Schools, Minority Issues, Racism, Women's Issues
Minorities and Women and Law Reviews, Oh My!
Earlier this month, roughly around the time that newly minted law review editors were hearing the good news, we raised the issue of how many minorities and women are being selected for law review. It’s not a new debate; whether underrepresented minorities (URMs) and women are adequately represented on the nation’s leading law journals has […] -
Harvard Law Review, Law Reviews, Law Schools, Minority Issues, Racism
Congratulations, New Law Review Editors!(And a question about minorities on law review.)
It’s early August. Law students are getting ready to go back to school. And some students — lucky or unlucky, you be the judge — are going back earlier than others, to work on their schools’ law reviews. Over the summer, rising 2Ls around the country received the rather important news: whether they made it […] -
Minority Issues, Police, Racism
A New Legal Violation: Jogging While Black?
We’ve all heard of the crime of Driving While Black. It’s when black people drive around in nice cars — which some cops interpret as probable cause for a stop and search. It’s happened to me (shout-out to Kokomo, Indiana). After my experience I learned how to respect the law (of not ending up in […] -
Federal Government, Minority Issues, Politics, Racism, Screw-Ups
Shirley Sherrod Is Coming After Andrew Breitbart
If you thought this whole Shirley Sherrod thing was just going to blow over, well, you’re not thinking like a lawyer interested in generating fees. Burned by Andrew Breitbart’s editing skills, Sherrod says she intends to sue. The New York Daily News reports: “I will definitely do it,” Sherrod said at the National Association of […] -
Cars, Lawyer of the Day, Minority Issues, Police, Racism, Rudeness
Lawyer of the Day: Prosecutor-To-Be Mouths Off to Officer -- and Loses Job
When I worked in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, I’d sometimes hear colleagues joke about handing over their Justice Department credentials along with their driver’s license if pulled over for a moving violation. It was a joke because it was generally understood that trying to get out of a speeding ticket by flaunting one’s status as […] - Sponsored
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Law Professors, Minority Issues, Racism, Texas
University of Texas Renames Simkins Hall
The University of Texas Board of Regents has agreed to rename Simkins Hall. Simkins Hall was named for a former UT Law professor and Ku Klux Klan leader. The Board of Regents voted unanimously to change the name. The Houston Chronicle reports: “There has never been any doubt in my mind about what direction they […] -
Minority Issues, Racism, Texas
UT's KKK Dorm Name Change Is up to the Board of Regents
A couple of months ago, we brought you the story of Simkins Residence Hall at the University of Texas. The dorm is named in honor of a former UT law professor — a professor who was a Ku Klux Klan leader and organizer. University officials claim they only became aware of Simkins’s KKK past when […] -
Judge of the Day, Marijuana, Minority Issues, Racism, Rudeness, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Judge of the Day: Peggy GehlFloridian jurist admires Jews; Jamaicans, not so much.
Southern Florida has been hit by a storm of insensitivity that has achieved gale force — Peggy Gehl force. Complaints about Judge Peggy Gehl and inappropriate comments she allegedly made from the bench were recently lodged with Chief Judge Victor Tobin of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit. (The story broke last week in the South Florida […] -
Boutique Law Firms, Minority Issues
White Guy Gets a Promotion -- And Suddenly It's News
Here’s a headline from the ABA Journal this morning: African-American Law Firm Elects Unusual CEO Unusual, you say? Well, when you click on that link, aren’t you expecting something really outside the box? Maybe they picked a CEO with no private sector experience? Maybe they picked a CEO who used to be in the CIA? […] -
Law Professors, Minority Issues, Racism, Texas
University of Texas Considers Renaming a Dorm Honoring a Klansman Law Professor
Texas exists so I don’t have to make up headlines like the one above. Khou.com reports: Simkins Residence Hall is the last all-male dormitory at the University of Texas. Tucked into a quiet corner of campus along Waller Creek, it was the first men’s dorm with air conditioning. It is notable for another reason as […]
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Email Scandals, Harvard Law Review, Minority Issues, Racism, Reader Polls, Richard Posner
Was the Harvard Email Racist? Was it Offensive?Take Our Reader Polls
If you’re tired of reading about the Harvard Law School email controversy — judging from our traffic and comment levels, most of you aren’t, but maybe some of you are — we have some good news. Our coverage is winding down. (We do have a few loose ends to tie up, though, which may take […] -
Email Scandals, Minority Issues, Racism
Harvard BLSA Responds to Email ControversyPlus a statement from the HLS dean of students.
Yesterday, I asked why the Harvard Black Law Students Association had been silent on the controversial email from a third-year Harvard Law School student raising the “possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent.” Today, the organization released a statement on its website: Harvard BLSA denounces racially inflammatory language – […] -
Email Scandals, Harvard Law Review, listserv, Minority Issues, Racism
Harvard Law School 3L's Racist Email Goes National
Every time you put something into an email, please remember that someone you send it to may hit Forward. If your email makes the case for a biological reason for racial disparities in intelligence, someone might hit Forward and send it to Black Law Student Associations across the nation. That’s what happened to a Harvard […] -
Free Speech, Gay, Law Schools, Minority Issues
Young Americans for Freedom Distance Themselves from Toledo 1L
On Friday, we told you about Toledo College of Law 1L Kyle Bristow. While an undergraduate at Michigan State University, Bristow was the chairman of the school’s chapter of Young Americans For Freedom (YAF). The Southern Poverty Law Center labeled the Michigan State chapter of YAF a “hate group.” We reported that Bristow was no […] -
Free Speech, Gay, Law Schools, Minority Issues
From Alleged 'Hate Group' Chairman to Toledo College of Law 1L
A first-year law student at the University of Toledo College of Law is apparently causing concern among some of his fellow students — not because of anything he has done on campus, but because of his past. Before he was a 1L at the University of Toledo College of Law, Kyle Bristow was the chairman […] -
Clarence Thomas, Minority Issues, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Clarence Thomas Throws Fellow Justices, Feeder Judges, and Law Schools Under the Diversity Bus
Today Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer made a rare appearance on Capitol Hill to testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee, regarding the Court’s budget. It started out jovially, with Justice Thomas poking fun at Justice Breyer for agreeing with him for the very first time (at the 15 minute mark, regarding taking […] -
Books, Duke Lacrosse Team Rape Case, Kids, Law Professors, LSAT, Minority Issues, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.01.10
* What we talk about when we talk about federalism: University of Chicago law professor Alison LaCroix, author of the just-published Ideological Origins of American Federalism, discusses the relevance of federalism for current policy debates. [Political Bookworm / Washington Post] * Speaking of the Founding, if there’s another Constitutional Convention, I demand that all delegates […]