How Law Professors Undermine the Law
…sake that we become more professional in the use of our knowledge.” – George J. Stigler, Nobel laureate economist, University of Chicago, Academic Freedom and Responsibility “Academic freedom is the…
…sake that we become more professional in the use of our knowledge.” – George J. Stigler, Nobel laureate economist, University of Chicago, Academic Freedom and Responsibility “Academic freedom is the…
…hazard, where future borrowers would expect to be bailed out, too: “Student loan forgiveness sets a terrible precedent as well. Because future students might reasonably expect their debt to be…
…to her to discuss the sincerity of the Afrikaner government. [Related: “Indigenization Has Poisoned Mount Royal University’s Academic Environment”] Tamar Herzig’s “Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence” describes how, in 1610,…
…anti-Semitic expression—the university is being made to answer for its failure to protect Jewish students and faculty with a new Title VI complaint filed on July 19 by the American…
…economics scholar Ronald Coase, University of Chicago Law *** Two law professors from the University of Chicago and UCLA, respectively, recently wrote a fascinating essay in the Chronicle of Higher…
Last week, both Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) filed their response briefs with the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS), which is now considering two lawsuits against the…
…schools offer inspiration for America’s academic future. With academic freedom in short supply, the recent founding of the University of Austin shows that the past can be repeated. Thanks to…
…sense of common purpose, a sense of what it means to hold citizenship in America,” he argues. “It’s a fundamental challenge to our future. All of us bear responsibility as…
…condemned identity politics. But, out of sight and on the sly, we contributed to the university’s intellectual decline. We made this disaster worse than what even the “woke” mob accomplished….
…equated with toxic masculinity or worse. Fortunately, in his new book, “The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation,” (Encounter Books) professor emeritus at Assumption University Daniel J….
…rather than a debt-based one. Under these agreements, an investor pays for a student’s college education up front in return for a share of the student’s future earnings for a…
…Day sang, the future’s not ours to see, but it’s a good bet that the grip of Woke orthodoxy on the University of California, and most other U.S. universities, will…
…Drew G. Faust, 2016 My alma mater, Harvard University, has just decided to spend $100 million from its $53.2 billion endowment on a new project. President Lawrence Bacow celebrated the…
…results, many of which are at top schools like Columbia University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Washington. Left unsaid but undoubtedly true is that programs in…
…University”] What has The Wrecker to teach us in our wrecked age? What insights, in particular, does it offer to those of us who must navigate among the hulks of…
…Cornell University physics department, Dr. Mukund Vengalattore was informed by university administrators that a graduate student (“Jane Roe”), who withdrew from his lab in 2012 and had been accused of…
…measurement. The University of Chicago’s Robert Hutchins nailed it: a university president’s job is sex for undergraduates, parking for faculty, and football for alumni. It’s hard to visualize every school…
…the purpose of the university. That is not what a university should do or be. And that is not a place where the country’s future lawyers should be taught. A…
…university funding for the 2018-2019 academic year, and potentially considerably more by directing grants through states, as well as about 12% ($28 billion) of private four-year university funding. According to…
…Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, and the London School of Economics, among others, host the LL.B (and the 1-year graduate LL.M), which are all considered “QLD,” or qualifying law degrees….
…Currently, this is voluntary, but it will soon be mandatory. According to the University’s Provost, the university must “catalyze innovation and discovery, find novel and proactive ways to educate students…
…future hires are essential and commit to forming a faculty search committee. Ironically, the cowardliness will be widely hailed for “moving the university forward” and diffusing a potential crisis. Peace…
…at Ohio State University passed an “emergency resolution” urging the University to divest from Hewlett Packard and Caterpillar, Inc. The resolution claimed that “by investing in such companies, The Ohio…
…the institution’s ranking. And Columbia University math professor Michael Thaddeus recently uncovered evidence indicating that his own university similarly fudged their numbers. In these instances, borrower defense could still serve…
…“defunding the universities.” Doubters need only observe the angry parents who are disrupting school board meetings to express their outrage over university-manufactured Critical Race Theory. Peasants armed with pitchforks and…
…to make them credible arbiters of what may and may not be said on university campuses. They do not have the moral right or intellectual capacity to gauge what is…
…the University of Massachusetts Boston posted this month, more than 50 faculty members criticized a proposed new mission and vision statement for the university that shifts the priorities from education…
…the discovery and spread of political truth.” This case implicates these bedrock constitutional principles protecting freedom of thought and expression. The setting is a public university, the University of North…
…not countenance deliberate discrimination against protected classes, which is what DEI supporters typically demand. Nevertheless, as exemplified by the University of Texas’ feckless President Jay Hartzell, universities are openly adopting…
…all the while providing the illusion of objectivity. Never underestimate the deviousness of ideologues in their quest for Utopia. Less predictable, however, will be the problem of university employees who…