…the American Association of Law Schools, which is a trade group run by insiders from academia—that licenses lawyers, asserts professional disciplinary authority, issues exams, and oversees and “certifies” law schools,…
…and ability distributions. The elite Northeastern schools re-requiring test scores—Dartmouth, Georgetown, Brown, Yale, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)—select applicants solely from that end of the range. Thus,…
…Washington University law Professor John Banzhaf agreed with Coward’s concerns. Banzhaf told The Fix “under the new regulations” for Title IX complaints, those charged with violating the rules “would be…
…Students live and work near one another. There is a commonality of purpose. Most schools have a governing code of conduct or a set of guiding principles to which all…
…cumulative effect of the preceding four laws is toward ever-increasing expenditure.” These laws help explain the out-of-state tuition puzzle. The first law explains that public schools are not profit-maximizers not…
…news of the Boston Tea Party arrived in London early in 1774. The British government immediately set about to restore British law and order in Massachusetts. Parliament passed the first…
Negative rights signal the core of natural law in the American tradition, also known as our Bill of Rights. Without them, the Constitution might never have been ratified, or we…
…distinction). According to CAFH’s director, Flynn Cratty, however, 121 of these come from the professional schools: law, business, divinity, the Kennedy School of Government, and the medical school. In fact,…
…history, and management science. Law remains especially susceptible to ideological influence, as the culture within law schools often reinforces ideologies through special interest rules presented as expressions of justice. Our…
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Law & Liberty on March 1, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. When A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole…
…Harvard officials for information We contacted administrators at six of Harvard’s various schools—FAS, Law School, Medical School, Divinity School, Kennedy School of Government, and Continuing Education—asking for information about faculty…
…be made on the basis of an individual’s age, level of education, or rank in an organization. Health care students must enjoy equal protection under the law, equivalent to all…
…and State doctrine established by the Founders. After all, Americans are taught in public schools that the Founders were opposed to any establishment of religion in American society. They learn…
…law schools rather than the network they create. If law schools compete for rank as institutions, they are competing over non-law categories through corporate branding, which is a device of…
…two laws. First, the Iron Law—every time someone wins a game, someone else loses. The national aggregate win-loss record of all college teams is .500–50 percent of games are won;…
…a terror group by Western nations, Hamas is a jihadist Islamist mob of fanatics determined to create a Sharia law-based Caliphate free of non-believers. Specific animosity is directed at followers…
…— John Adams in an address to the military in 1798. Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of…
…violates the First Amendment. The Davis Standard currently prevents schools from completely shutting down speech they believe to be offensive or controversial. And even though some schools choose not to…
…used to advance radicalism in schools. For example, cases of alleged sexual misconduct on campus are now handled by the school Title IX office, where staff often presume guilt and…
…Georgetown Law School has added more personal interviews to assess an applicant’s qualification. Why do schools pursue an illegal policy that makes little economic sense? Might this just be ideological…
…a million dollars a year! Wow! It seems like a lot of money. But what were the Bidens selling? Not Hunter’s expertise in, say, energy, economics, international law, Ukrainian culture,…
…production” so “productive scholars” were to be financially rewarded and academic “dead wood” culled. An added advantage would be to insulate schools from frivolous racial discrimination litigation by assembling “objective”…
…the Teachers College): “Although the focus was also on our schools and their facilities, they were also seeking to gain insight into the most varied questions of our political, cultural,…
…a run for their money. It’s running a Business Law Section Diversity Clerkship Program that reserves its beneficiaries to the “diverse,” defined as: Law student of color Women Law students…
…laws of the broader community, laws to which we adhere.” There is another issue: the quality of presidential leadership. All three presidents testifying were in only their second year of…
…UCLA Dukeminier Distinguished Professor of Law Richard Sander have answered the need to ensure that higher education institutions practice race-blind admissions by way of legislation. The Fair Admissions Act is…
…many Texas state universities, schools like the University of Houston or Texas Tech University, typically pay their top official well over $1 million annually, apparently thinking higher pay will get…
…activism were a duty of the law student and lawyer—which they confuse with advocacy. This centers around the law school culture of social reform. Reform is appealing because it appears…
The law school deans at places such as Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Penn rarely turn to me for advice. Ok, never. That’s partly because I am not a lawyer but…
…But at a lot of schools, especially the most elite East Coast schools, men today seem to be grudgingly viewed as necessary evils, cash cows whose parental donations and gifts…