Constitutional Law
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Constitutional Law
The Country Has A Destructive Addiction To Prohibition
Despite an overwhelming record of failure and causing unnecessary harm, prohibition remains the go-to legal solution. -
Government
Montana Legislator Will Shoot Socialists In The Head As Mandated By The Constitution
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Constitutional Law
The Legal Encroachments By The Federal Government Upon State Domain We Should All Care About
The principle of states' rights has of course been utilized as a pretext for ignoble purposes. That doesn’t make every intrusion by the federal government a noble endeavor though.
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Government
Look, The Framers Expected Presidents To Wildly Abuse Power, Okay?
This checks out assuming you do absolutely no follow up research. -
Government
Huge Constitutional Development That Will Get Completely Ignored
The 28th Amendment should be on its way to the Constitution, but Trump's Department of Justice has declared it dead. -
Constitutional Law
Enter Sandmann: CNN Settlement Reminds Us That Most Idiots Have No Idea What A 'Settlement' Is
But who are the real idiots here? -
Constitutional Law
Accountability For Constitutional Violations Likely Has To Start With The Trivial
Accountability in practice has always been difficult, yet evidence indicates incremental progress can be a powerful tool. -
Constitutional Law
The Law Of Personal Responsibility And The Illusion Of Free Will
The state of Massachusetts has created a duty, under criminal penalty, for minors and young adults to alleviate harmful psychological treatment. - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
Constitutional Law
An Originalist Case For Presumptive First Amendment Protection Of Pornography
A free speech guarantee applied with an originalist lens requires robust, evidence-based procedures that modern porn prohibitionists cannot satisfy. -
Constitutional Law
Tucker Carlson Draws A Line
In the last year, the pundit has embraced victimhood populism, claimed the problem within the United States is market capitalism, and now advocates that we should take Russia’s side when it comes to Ukraine. -
Government
America's Founding Fathers Would've Been 'Horrified': Law Professors School Trump On Impeachment
The president receives another Con Law 101 lesson on impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors. -
Courts
Tax Court Decides Whether A Tax on Marijuana Sales Is An Unconstitutionally Excessive Fine
The Tax Court's majority decision dealt another blow to marijuana advocates trying to fight Section 280E. -
Immigration
Nationalism Seeks To Eradicate The Light Of Reason And The Love Of Liberty
No evidence, or economic motive, justifies restricting immigration to the United States.
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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Constitutional Law
A Religious Bigot In Power Plays The Victim
In a speech where he demonized all those who do not subscribe to his religious 'moral' teachings as the direct cause of all the country’s problems, William Barr also claimed to be the victim. -
Government
Con Law Reading Is FUNdamental...
... especially for the President of the United States of America. -
Courts
Originalism Currently Lacks Intellectual Integrity
At its moment of triumph, the judicial philosophy of Constitutional originalism has already become what it claims to oppose. -
Constitutional Law
Anti-Establishment Liberty Is Not A Discrimination Against Religion
The issue in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue is being distorted by atextual and ahistorical nondiscrimination principles. -
Women's Issues
The Principles Of Poverty
The extent to which poverty relates to women possessing control over their own procreation decisions should embolden the removal of institutional barriers to birth control; instead, the exact opposite has occurred. -
Constitutional Law
Gross Hypocrisy Is No Longer A Political Sin, And Other Reflections On A Year Gone By
It’s Tyler Broker’s one-year anniversary here at Above The Law, so he felt compelled to take some perspective.