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Did A Professor Just Leave A Top Law School And Refuse To Grade Exams On The Way Out?
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Law Schools
Elite Law School Cancels In-Person Class Amid Mass Shooting Threat
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Law School Invites Professor Who Uses Racial Slurs To Encourage 'Dialogue,' Then Shuts Off Comments
Is it possible that law schools aren't serious when they talk about promoting discussion?
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Delayed Bar Exams Leave Applicants Without Health Insurance
The human cost of bungling bar exams. -
Law Schools
UCLA Law School Calls For Tolerance, So Obviously Professor Blows That Up With Childish, Racist Tirade
Eugene Volokh explicitly does NOT apologize for all the offensive stuff he does. And that's because he's oblivious. -
Law Schools
Law School Professor Muses That His Chinese Students Spread Coronavirus
Maybe not the most professional response. -
Law Schools
The Time Is Now For California To Lower Its Bar Exam Pass Score
The evidence is clear: California needs to align with the national standard. -
Law Schools
Another Law School Goes To The Dark Side And Will Accept The GRE
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How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
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Law Schools
Law Student Hopes To Win 'Survivor: Ghost Island' To Pay Off Law School Debts
Best of luck to this law student who's trying to win a $1 million grand prize! -
Law Schools
Law School Finals Go On As Scheduled While City Burns
Not all law students were willing to potentially risk life and limb to take a stupid test. -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
California Law School Deans Are None Too Pleased That The Bar Exam's Passing Score Will Not Be Lowered
One law dean called it a 'tragedy.' -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.17.17
* Ty Cobb, a former federal prosecutor, has resigned from his post as a partner at Hogan Lovells to join President Trump’s legal team as the investigation into the campaign’s possible collusion with Russia continues to expand. Cobb, who’s related to the baseball player of the same name, leaves behind more than 30 years of history at the firm to collaborate with Marc Kasowitz, which should be interesting, to say the least. Dat stache, tho… [Bloomberg; New York Times]
* In other news, yet another member of President Trump’s legal team, Jay Sekulow, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press and CBS’s Face the Nation yesterday in an attempt to solidify claims that his client, the commander-in-chief, had no knowledge of Don Jr.’s emails and meeting with the Russians, and that “there was nothing illegal to cover up” anyway. [Newsweek]
* Meanwhile, it looks like Trump’s lawyers knew about Don Jr.’s emails and meeting with the Russians more than three weeks ago, which makes the president’s assertion that he’d learned of it “a couple of days ago” all the more far fetched. In fact, per a recent FEC filing, President Trump’s reelection campaign paid $50,000 to Don Jr.’s criminal-defense lawyer, Alan Futerfas, on June 26, two weeks before the email scandal was made public. [Yahoo News; Daily Beast]
* “I think a politician or a public figure of note can have a Twitter account of public note which would not be deemed to be a public forum. But in the Trump Administration, what he says on his tweets are as much public in nature as a press conference.” Renowned First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams explains why the litigants who sued President Trump for blocking their Twitter accounts might just have a shot when it comes to winning their case. [Big Law Business]
* “I wouldn’t rent to u if u were the last person on earth. One word says it all. Asian.” An Airbnb host has been taken to task by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing after canceling a UCLA School of Law student’s cabin reservation based on race. Airbnb must also develop a discipline system for discriminatory hosts. We may have more on this later. [The Recorder]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.18.17
* BYU and Pepperdine are the “most ideologically balanced faculties.” You know, if you want to give more fuel to the snowflakes. [TaxProf Blog]
* When will Neil Gorsuch retire? [Empirical SCOTUS]
* UCLA Law has a $20 million movie deal. Sort of. [Law.com]
* CFPB sues law firm. Wow, there’s still a CFPB? [Law360]
* Zara apparently branching out into the Noe-Nazi market. And here I thought Hugo Boss had that locked up. [Fashionista]
* Do you know your state’s official bird? Well, this legislator thinks you shouldn’t have to and is waging the single most important policy fight in his state. [Lowering the Bill]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.15.16
* Ted Cruz may not like dildos, but he doesn’t seem to mind legal weed. Earlier this week, the Republican presidential candidate said that while he opposes federal legalization of cannabis, states should be free to experiment because the Constitution allows for it. Colorado’s legalization of recreational marijuana is safe and sound, for now. [Denver Post]
* “It was a very pleasant meeting, but it has changed nothing.” Senate Republicans may want nothing to do with confirming D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, but they’ve sure been taking their sweet time telling him “no” during their courtesy meetings with him. Some of these seemingly pointless meetings have gone on for more than an hour. [New York Times]
* Chief Judge Garland may be wasting his time with these lengthy meetings, though, because if the jurist isn’t confirmed before the upcoming presidential election, Senator Bernie Sanders said during last night’s Democratic debate that if he wins, he’d ask President Obama to withdraw his nomination, as he doesn’t think that Garland would pass his progressive litmus test on Citizens United. Are you still feeling the Bern? [TIME]
* Lawmakers in several states have passed bathroom bills that enable bigotry in the name of protecting religious rights, but what you may not have known is that there is one lawyer behind them all. Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel — who was recently in the news for representing Kentucky clerk Kim Davis — says he’s doing it to push back against the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. [CBS News]
* Professor Richard Sander of UCLA School of Law, whose claim to academic fame is his “mismatch” theory of affirmative action, has been trying to get more than 30 years’ worth of data from the State Bar of California for quite some time in an effort to continue his research into the “large and persistent gap in bar passage rates among racial and ethnic groups,” and now he’s finally going to get his day in court. [WSJ Law Blog]
* David Gherity, a former Minnesota lawyer who was falsely accused of setting his girlfriend on fire using accelerants like alcohol, lotion, hair spray, and fingernail polish remover, has filed a civil rights suit against the police and prosecutors who kept him in jail for about two months. Gherity, who was suspended from practice in 2004, alleges a violation of the “protected interest in his good name.” [Twin Cities Pioneer Press]
Staci Zaretsky is an editor at Above the Law. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments. Follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.
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Law Schools, Rankings
Which Law Schools Received The Most Applications For Fall 2015?
Which schools are on the dueling lists of the cream of the crop versus the cream of the crap? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.10.15
* Kid gets caught trying to buy skin mag with his dad’s money. Not one copy, but the whole magazine. Proving there are some fantasies too big even with $8 million and a Bryan Cave lawyer in your pocket. [Law360]
* Chris Christie is taking a strong stand against bestiality. There you go, buddy — it’s these sorts of courageous, controversial positions that will get you back in the prime time debates. [Associated Press]
* Congratulations to Neal Katyal, who has now argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any male minority lawyer save Thurgood Marshall. With his argument in Montanile v. Board of Trustees of the National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan, Katyal passed Drew Days and Wade McCree in this accounting (No, not that Wade McCree). [Supreme Court Brief]
* Hollywood hotshot gives $5 million to UCLA School of Law. [National Law Journal]
* Supreme Court ignores all lower courts and expands qualified immunity to cops who base their decisions on well-established action movie tropes. [Huffington Post]
* Biglaw faces slowdown. [American Lawyer]
* One law school is taking a stab at the access to justice problem in this country. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
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Law Professors, Law Schools
Free Market Law Professor Seeks Unpaid Help
Putting the "free" in "free market." -
Law Schools, LSAT
New Attack Ads Brutalize Rival Law School
A tipster sent us a shot of a new ad for an LSAT prep course that takes it to that hated rival.... -
Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Non-Sequiturs, Racism, Sex, Technology
Non-Sequiturs: 02.27.14
* If you want male-strippers dressed as cops to come by the house, don’t call 911. [Legal Juice] * These look like some fun Biglaw recruiting events over in England. Too bad if you’re not an Oxford or Cambridge student… [Legal Cheek] * For the comic-loving lawyers out there, Marvel has kicked off a new run of the preeminent lawyer to the superheroes, She-Hulk. [Law and the Multiverse] * How should we judge our prisons? Low incidence of rape and torture would be a good start. [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * You can’t use your failing company’s Facebook account to poach opportunities for your new company. [IT-Lex] * More coverage of the tensions at UCLA Law School. [Huffington Post] * University ordered to pay $2.5 million to former lawyer it fired for not rubber-stamping some questionable dealings. [Chronicle of Higher Education] * Andi from this season’s The Bachelor has disappeared from the murder trial she was running in Atlanta to take over as next season’s Bachelorette. Maybe she won’t dumb herself down as much when she’s the star of the show. Video of her in court after the jump… [TMZ]