Law School Professor Just Won’t Stop Begging To Use Racial Slurs
At a certain point, you have to wonder why he's willing to keep charging up this hill.
Harvard Law Professor Defends Yale’s Decision To Keep Slave Owner’s Name On Building
Bucking the trend of outrage over Yale's decision to keep a slave owner's name on a building.
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Morning Docket: 11.27.15
Ed. note: We hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. As we mentioned before Thanksgiving, we'll be on a reduced publication schedule today. * Randall Kennedy, one of the African-American Harvard Law School professors whose portraits got marked with black tape, shares HLS alum Elie Mystal's reaction to the incident: he is unimpressed. [New York Times] * In other Harvard Law news, an HLS librarian got arrested after police claim he tried to arrange a sexual meet-up with a deputy posing as an underage girl in Colorado (site of a librarians' conference). [Boston Globe] * Former Supreme Court clerk Brianne Gorod argues that SCOTUS can and should decide Texas's challenge to President Obama's executive action on immigration this Term (i.e., before the 2016 election). [Constitutional Accountability Center via How Appealing] * Ohio State law student Madison Gesiotto is not happy with how administrators responded when one of her conservative columns prompted a threat from a fellow student. [Washington Times] * The SEC just dropped its civil insider trading case against former SAC Capital Advisors LP portfolio manager Michael Steinberg. [WSJ Law Blog] * Let's rank the top 10 women Supreme Court justices! Oh wait, there are only four.... [National Law Journal] * Linda Greenhouse offers her reflections on "Sex After 50" (at SCOTUS). [New York Times via How Appealing] * The father of Paul Walker is suing Porsche for negligence and wrongful death over the 2013 car crash that killed Walker, of "Fast and Furious" fame. [AP via WSJ Law Blog]
Non-Sequiturs: 07.15.15
* Doesn't the increasingly bloated Republican presidential primary field seem like a plot from Veep rather than real life? Well, take a break from the world's insanity and break down the election law quandary from the season finale of the hit show. [Law.com] * Spoiler alert: the performance art defense doesn't work. [Dealbreaker] * Good news for New York Bar Exam takers -- don't stress about grabbing lunch on the day of the exam. [Custom Gourmet] * This... is not going to end well. China arrested more than 100 human rights lawyers for inciting trouble. [Christian Science Monitor] * I think it's entirely possible Harper Lee never intended to publish "Go Set A Watchman" and that makes me hesitant to read the novel, but Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy's call to "abandon the immature sentimentality ingrained by middle school lessons about the nobility of the white savior" has me itching to buy the book. [New York Times] * Speaking of the incredibly sketchy circumstances under which Harper Lee's novel was published, maybe it's time to blame the lawyer? [New Republic] * Remember that viral video about cat-calling on NYC streets from last year? Yeah, the woman featured is suing the makers of the video (along with Google, YouTube, and TGI Fridays). Only problem? She got nothing in writing. [Slate] * I sure hope no attorneys were sucked into this M&A fraud. [Forbes] * OIL AND HEAVY WATER FOR EVERYBODY -- a take on the Iran deal. [Breaking Energy]