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Calling New Patent Law Professors

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Every year, law schools advertise open faculty positions via a Faculty Appointments Register sponsored by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). This year’s list was just released, and lots of schools are looking to hire patent and IP professors. The new hire then starts work the following summer.

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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

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Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School. June, 2022).

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USD Law Professor Under Investigation For Column Criticizing Chinese Government

JonathanTurley

He told the law school: While the blog is not hosted by the University of San Diego, these forms of bias, wherever they occur, have an adverse impact on our community. The statement led a few faculty to write to Schapiro in protest: Dear Robert, We have read your email to the law school community as well as your email to one of us.

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Rutgers Professor and Law Student Under Fire for Reading Racial Slur From Judicial Opinion

JonathanTurley

The New York Times is reporting that a Rutgers Law Professor and law student are under fire after the student reluctantly read the n-word in a 1993 legal opinion. That triggers a petition from students to demand action from the law school and apologies from both the professor and the student.

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Morrison: Time to Give DC Residents A Vote in Congress

JonathanTurley

One of the briefs written in support of the district in the recent litigation was from constitutional scholars, including my colleague Alan B. Morrison, Lerner Family Associate Dean at George Washington Law School. I reached out to Professor Morrison to see if he would offer a response on the ruling and the underlying issues.

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Child 3930: The Implausible and Wonderful Life of Tom Buergenthal

JonathanTurley

Tom would make it with his mother to the United States and ultimately studied law, with a J.D. at New York University Law School and his LL.M. degrees in international law from Harvard Law School. What followed next was even less plausible. I think of the number 3930.

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Biden to create bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform

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The announcement fulfilled a campaign promise by the president, who last fall proposed the idea of a commission after he declined to endorse efforts by liberals to expand the Supreme Court – efforts that Justice Stephen Breyer criticized in a speech on Tuesday at Harvard Law School. Elise Boddie, professor of law and Judge Robert L.