Recent Headlines from Above the Law
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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: NYU Doesn't Have An SBA Anymore
Did not expect that to happen. -
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Stephen Miller Takes Break From Suing Gay Pop-Tarts To Sue NYU Law Review
America First Legal accuses NYU Law Review of discriminating against white man who hasn't even tried to apply yet. -
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Students Demand Elite Law School Pay Them
Law students cannot survive on prestige alone. -
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Trailing Justice To Oregon: NYU Takes A State To Court
Hey look, if you're gonna get accused of crimes you may or may have not committed, just be rich! /s -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.10.22
* You know you have to be doing something wrong as a state when a law school sues you. [NYU News]
* Things appear to be looking up for the Indian Child Welfare Act. [West Hawaii Today]
* Success doesn’t always make you safe in layoff season. [Law.com]
* The infighting among judges soft banning aspiring Yale clerks continues. [Daily Princetonian]
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91-Year-Old Elite Law School Grad Took Out $29,000 In Student Loans, Owes $329,309
Her balance has grown exponentially. -
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Law Revue Video Contest 2022: The Finalists!
Who will win this year's Law Revue Video Contest? It’s up to you. Start voting now! -
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T14 Law School Professor Tests Positive For Coronavirus
Yikes. Has this happened at any other law schools? -
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4 More Prestigious Law Schools Close Their Doors Over Coronavirus Concerns
COVID-19 fears are sweeping the T14. Which schools are affected now? -
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Trio Of Elite Law Schools Try Biglaw Early Interviews To Give Their Students Even More Of A Leg Up
More fallout from the changed NALP recruitment rules. -
In-House Counsel
Legal Madness, The Encore: Your In-House Horror Stories Performed On Stage
Click here to submit your legal tales of insanity. -
In-House Counsel
Legal Madness: Your In-House Horror Stories Performed On Stage
Click here to submit your legal tales of insanity. -
Crime, Justice
Wrongful Convictions: What Is To Be Done?
Identifying wrongful convictions and getting them vacated isn't easy, but it is essential. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs: 04.07.19
* Where does Justice Brett Kavanaugh fit along the ideological spectrum at the Supreme Court? Adam Feldman evaluates the evidence thus far. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Speaking of SCOTUS, Frank Pasquale takes Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum’s new book, The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court (affiliate link), as a jumping-off point for exploring the political polarization of SCOTUS. [Balkinization]
* Texas v. Azar, the Obamacare case now pending before the Fifth Circuit, makes for unusual alliances — how often do you see Jonathan Adler, Nick Bagley, Abbe Gluck, and Ilya Somin on the same amicus brief? [Take Care]
* David Bernstein offers some thoughtful reflections — with which I happen to agree — on how some conservatives responded to the nominations of Neomi Rao and Jessie Liu. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
* Joel Cohen has a question about Robert Mueller: “What did he know, and when did he know it?” [The Hill]
* And Cohen also has this interesting interview with Justice David Wecht of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, about an important (and disturbing) subject: the recent rise in anti-Semitism, in America and abroad. [Tablet]
* If you share my interest in litigation finance, then you might be interested in this great new resource: a comprehensive digital library of documents relating to the litigation-funding industry. [Litigation Finance Journal]
* What trends and technology will shape the future of the legal profession? Jean O’Grady discusses highlights from a new report by Wolters Kluwer. [Dewey B Strategic]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs: 03.24.19
* In the wake of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s retirement, I predicted that Chief Justice John Roberts, a staunch institutionalist when it comes to the Supreme Court, would serve as a moderating influence at SCOTUS — and so far that seems to be the case, with Adam Feldman noting a “a mild liberalizing over time” in JGR’s jurisprudence. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Speaking of SCOTUS, it’s high time for the Court to resolve the messy circuit split on email privacy under the Stored Communications Act, according to Orin Kerr. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
* The Trump Administration’s new executive order about free speech on university campuses might harm rather than help the cause of academic freedom, as Paul Horwitz points out. [PrawfsBlawg]
* Republicans aren’t the only ones with purity tests for judicial nominations; Demand Justice, a left-wing group focused on the federal judiciary, has high standards for Democratic opposition to Trump nominees. [Bench Memos / National Review]
* While you wait for the 2019 edition of Above the Law’s law school rankings, check out the latest installment of the “revealed preferences” law school rankings, by C.J. Ryan and Brian L. Frye. [SSRN]
* What’s next for Kira Systems, a leader in the world of legal AI? Co-founder and CEO Noah Waisberg isn’t resting on his laurels — and he’s putting that $50 million investment from last September to work. [Artificial Lawyer]
* Fastcase continues to forge new partnerships — and in its latest alliance, it will give its subscribers access to select titles from the American Bar Association (which, full disclosure, published my book (affiliate link) in 2014). [Dewey B Strategic]
* If you’ll be in New York this coming Wednesday, consider attending the inaugural Kenneth P. Thompson ’92 Lecture on Race and Criminal Justice Reform at NYU Law School, focused on wrongful convictions and the roles of prosecutors and others in the criminal justice system. [NYU Law]
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Inspired By Kavanaugh, Harvard Law Review Sued For Discriminating Against White Men
Kavanaugh has emboldened conservatives to try their most ridiculous legal claims. -
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Another T14 Law School Decides The GRE Is Good Enough For Them
The LSAT is not quite as important as it once was. -
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Another Elite Law School Eyes GRE For Admissions
Is the GRE expanding its footprint to Greenwich Village?