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Schools with the most racially diverse law school faculties didn’t do well in the U.S. News Rankings or the ATL one. [New York Law Journal] Jodi Arias news. Something about the death penalty. I didn’t really read the article. Remember,...Show More Summary
“To Regulate” Not “To Prohibit”
(Jonathan H. Adler) Barry Friedman of New York University School of Law and Genevieve Lakier of the University of Chicago Law School have an interesting new paper on the meaning of “regulate” as used in the Commerce Clause, “‘To Regulate,’ Not ‘To Prohibit’: Limiting the Commerce Power.” Here’s the abstract: Today it is taken for granted that Congress’s [...]
Department of Education Should Terminate ABA's Role as Law School Accreditor
National Law Journal op-ed: ABA and Legal Education: Change Won't Come from Within, by Michael L. Coyne (Associate Dean, Massachusetts School of Law): With calls from The New York Times among others for drastic changes in legal education; near-universal agreement that the ABA's system of legal education is broken; and...
NYLS Law Review Symposium on Trial by Jury or Trial by Motion? Summary Judgment, Iqbal, and Employment Discrimination
The New York Law School Law Review has an interesting new Symposium out which seeks to identify the reasons employment plaintiffs have far lower success rates on prejudgment and post-judgment motions when compared to other types of plaintiffs. The symposium...
Video: Interview: Acting Secretary of Labor Seth Harris
Seth Harris was nominated to be the Deputy Secretary of Labor on February 23, 2009. Prior to joining the Department, Mr. Harris served as a Professor of Law at New York Law School and Director of its Labor & Employment Law Programs. While teaching at the New York Law School, Mr. Harris was also a [...]
NYU professor: 'There is no evidence that 3 parents would not be better than 2' (Video)
by Leslie Grimard NEW YORK, May 2, 2013 (Heritage Foundation) - In a recent debate at New York University Law School, Ryan T. Anderson, co-author of the book What Is Marriage? and Heritage’s William E. Simon Fellow, asked Professor Judith Stacey the essential question: What is marriage? Stacey gives a…
NEW YORK’S GUN LAWS COULD DRIVE FILMMAKERS WEST
This is a case of unintended consequences. New York state, which already had some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, toughened them up after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. But now, filmmakers say, gun props may be illegal under the new laws. And that could force them to shoot their shoot ‘em up [...]
Bagchi Selected As One of New York Law Journal's 2013 Rising Stars
From Dean Michael Martin at Fordham Law School: Please join me in congratulating Fordham Law Associate Professor Aditi Bagchi on her selection as one of the New York Law Journal’s 2013 Rising Stars. She is the only law professor among...
On cities and networks
I’m in Boston right now, and bummed that I can’t attend Start-up City: An Entrepreneurial Economy for Middle Class New York, which is happening today at New York Law School today. I learned about it via Dana Spiegel of NYC Wireless, who will be on a panel titled “Breakout Session III: Infrastructure for the 21st [...]
NY Court Dismisses Placement Data Fraud Lawsuit Against Brooklyn Law School
New York Supreme Court Justice David Schmidt on Monday dismissed a placement data fraud lawsuit against Brooklyn Law School by five of its alumni. Bevelacqua v. Brooklyn Law School, No. 500175/2012 (Apr. 22, 2013). New York courts previously have dismissed similar lawsuits against Albany Law School and New York Law...
Jimmy McMillan: Law School Dean or Mayor of New York?
Following up on my prior post on The Law School Crisis: What Would Jimmy McMillan Do?, 31 Pepperdine Law 14 (Fall 2012): Several years ago, I co-wrote an article on applying the principles from Michael Lewis’s Moneyball book to legal education (What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and...
Judge Tosses Lawsuit Against Brooklyn Law School
A New York state judge has rejected a lawsuit by five Brooklyn Law School graduates who claimed they were misled by the school regarding the success of its graduates in finding high-paying legal employment.
New York Gun Control Law: State Police Confiscate Weapons From The Wrong Guy
Buffalo, NY — New York’s new gun control law has more issues. Thee mental health provisions of New York’s strict gun control law rushed through the state legislation after the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., apparently caused the pistol-permit suspension of a law-abiding, innocent citizen who also had to [...]Show More Summary
Rural Monitor: Lawyers Sparse in the Country
By Casey Francis on April 11, 2013 - 12:47pm The New York Times reports, “ Rural Americans are increasingly without lawyers.” This is despite the growing struggle for law school graduates to find employment and the reality that the population of rural America comprises about a fifth of the people. Show More Summary
Maine takes up gun reform, defiance
Since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the states of New York, Colorado, Connecticut and Maryland have passed laws designed to prevent gun violence. This week the Maine legislature takes up a couple dozen gun bills. One bill would ban carrying weapons "in a pub …
Univ. of AZ Lowers Law School Tuition; Market Correction?
It's universally known that the legal job market is nonexistent for new graduates. Heck, The New York Times writes a story on it every week, it seems. The ABA released job data earlier this week for the class of 2012 and unsurprisingly enough, there were no jobs. We've also talked......
Three Upcoming Talks in New York City
(Ilya Somin) This coming week, on Thursday and Friday, I will be doing three different two talks in New York City, two at NYU Law School, and one at Columbia Law School. On Thursday, April 11, from 12:10 to about 1:10, Columbia law Professor Theodore Shaw and I will be debating affirmative action and the Supreme Court’s [...]
Public School Students Take Sex Ed Elsewhere If Their School Is Owned By The Catholic Church
Because we live in the 21st century, students of New York City's public schools are required by law to receive lessons about HIV and AIDS?they just can't learn about these basic biological functions and communicable diseases in a building owned by the Catholic Church. Show More Summary
Prep the White Smoke! NYU School of Law Has a New Dean
Meet the new dean of the New York University School of Law.
Continue reading » Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook. Tags: 9th Circuit, Barack Obama, Betty B. Fletcher, Betty Fletcher, Canada, Columbia Law School,...Show More Summary
Suzanne Langlois: Connecticut Passes Nation's Toughest Gun Violence Prevention Legislation
One hundred ten days out from the massacre of twenty children and six educators at the Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut joins Colorado, and New York in enacting comprehensive anti-gun violence laws.
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