Law Professors Hate Free Speech and Embrace Control
…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…
…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…
…in regard to Indian Residential Schools, even in Newland’s report, there is an admission that schools got better over time and fewer children fell ill or died. At the Genoa…
…have been “captured” by the same liberal left-leaning ideologies of wokeness, which for the last thirty years have permeated European and American academia and professional schools. So, one must engage…
…law, banking, insurance, or manufacturing. My friends used to say I “bled purple,” as I have given over 7,000 volunteer hours and over seven million dollars to NU since beginning…
…no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.” Asked by…
…forces are pushing back against this dominant narrative. Public interest law firms, advocates, scholars, and activists are increasingly utilizing litigation to challenge the incorporation of DEI-themed requirements in schools, communities,…
…report for many more): “In 2006, the [American Bar Association] ABA then required law schools to demonstrate ‘concrete action’ to admit students (as well as hire faculty and staff) who…
…as well as in most parochial schools, the problem is a bit different. Many schools are top-heavy, with too many administrators trying to supervise an increasingly demoralized and inexperienced group…
…public interest law firm, is representing J.D. Haltigan in a lawsuit against the University of California (UC) system, alleging that UC Santa Cruz rejected Haltigan’s job application because he refused…
…national director. “Demand for Christian schools is high,” Preus says. “Most of the growth in new schools is in micro and hybrid space.” But traditional Christian schools are starting too….
…as the gap between law school operating costs and revenue widens further. Alternatives, including fast-track foreign undergraduate law programs, will wedge American law schools out of an industry that is…
…from public release by state or federal law—but it requires public K–12 schools and universities to justify their exemptions with reference to state or federal law and to establish procedures…
…schools to violate applicable state law (with statutory damages against accreditors and their employees if they do so). Private rights of action. Who enforces the law? Absent meaningful penalties on…
…may see “massive resistance.” What can be done, other than yet more lawsuits to compel colleges to follow the law? Let me suggest that opponents of racial preferences take a…
…U.S. and Latin America. But common law vs. codified law is only half the story. Once—while writing a constitution—an exemplary common law caught my attention. The “law of capture” holds…
Last year, Florida’s Stop W.O.K.E Act banned the teaching of certain race-based concepts in K–12 schools and higher education, including the notion that one race is superior or inferior to…
…autonomy cannot “make unconstitutional conduct constitutional.” With that, the court decisively revokes the schools’ license to discriminate on the basis of race. “The Constitution prevails.” In his concurring opinion, Justice…
…support legislative efforts to combat DEI policies in public medical schools. We’re working with lawmakers in more than a dozen states to eliminate DEI policies from medical schools and to…
…indispensable precursors of the woke ideology now so deeply entrenched in our schools and universities, courts, politics, and business. This is not to say that cultural anthropology is the sole…
…colleges itemize costs In addition to providing the total COA, colleges should itemize costs. Only 45% of schools do so. 3. 91% of colleges obscure or mislead students about the…
…trade-offs. Editor’s Note: This article originally implied that New York City’s specialized high schools stopped using the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) for admissions. This is not true. The…
…Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, which invalidated the desegregation policies of two school districts because they involved race-based admission criteria for over-subscribed magnet schools. Ford…
…violence has erupted when an allegedly controversial speaker visits their campus? [Related: “Elite Schools are Leading the Illiberal Charge”] In fact, many students seem to think that a violent response…
…testing for graduate schools. In K–12 education, the proposal calls for increasing funding for schools serving African American students, implementing “racially equitable” disciplinary practices, mandating “culturally responsive” teacher training, recruiting…
…World”] As George Washington University Law School professor and widely read pundit Jonathan Turley (himself a NU grad) points out, Northwestern ranks near the bottom of schools rated by the…
…This strategy works best for high-priced programs with low earnings (relative to debt), like law school. In fact, many law schools offer LRAPs. [More from Andrew Gillen: “It’s Time to…
…and residential life. These laws would duplicate existing civil rights law—but the federal government and academic administrations try to “interpret” federal nondiscrimination law to mandate discrimination. State nondiscrimination laws will…
…competence. Thus, to advance BIPOC, standards are lowered and done away with entirely: advanced courses in high schools are canceled; standardized tests are no longer required for admission to colleges…