Justice Goodwin H. Liu (via YouTube)
* The Supreme Court’s latest ruling in the travel ban litigation: good news for grandparents, bad news for certain refugees. [How Appealing]
* And in the travel ban battle, the parties aren’t pulling their punches. [Democracy in America / The Economist]
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* Nor does Joshua Matz: “The Supreme Court is now a co-owner and co-author of the travel ban.” [Take Care]
* Justice Goodwin Liu and a team of Yale Law School researchers have issued an important new report about Asian Americans in the legal profession today. [The Portrait Project]
* A defense of that controversial David Brooks column about salami. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
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* And a defense of due process when it comes to allegations of sexual assault on college campuses. [The Federalist via Instapundit]
* In other higher-education news, here’s the tweet that got Nick Lutz suspended from the University of Central Florida. [Althouse]
* How do millennials view the legal industry? Drew Rossow and Elan Fields discuss. [Legal Tookit / Legal Talk Network]
David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].