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Minnesota Law School Drops Exclusion of Whites and Males from Diversity Scholarship

JonathanTurley

There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School over a diversity fellowship sponsored by the law firm of Jones Day. Despite being created by a law firm and administered by a law school, the fellowship violated federal law in excluding white and male applicants.

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The Rising Generation of Censors: Law Schools are the Latest Battleground Over Free Speech

JonathanTurley

This trend has reached law schools, which is ominous since these students are the future judges and lawyers who are expected to defend these core principles. From high schools through law schools, free speech has gone from being considered a right that defines our society to being dismissed as a threat.

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Kafka in America: When Judges Don’t Know the Law

The Crime Report

Anthony Perkins in a still photo from Orson Well’s 1962 film version of “The Trial” In Franz Kafka’s sinister 1925 novel, The Trial, the hero finds himself the defendant in a court case where he is unaware of what law he has broken. North Carolina Justice. Could that happen in the U.S.?

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US dispatch: SCOTUS set to hear arguments in Harvard case that may end affirmative action in higher education

JURIST

Marisa Wright is a US national staff correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next Monday in a case that could have major implications for racial equality and college admissions. The Court will consider two questions presented by the case.

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Tributes to Walter Dellinger, a scholar, Supreme Court advocate, and “luminary in law and in life”

SCOTUSBlog

Share Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar and skilled advocate who argued 24 cases at the Supreme Court, died on Wednesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was a long-time member of the Duke Law School faculty, which he joined in 1969. William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School.

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Affirmative action appears in jeopardy after marathon arguments

SCOTUSBlog

Share In 2003, a divided Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger that the University of Michigan Law School could consider race in its admissions process as part of its efforts to assemble a diverse student body. Brown , diversity goals, and an “endpoint in sight”. What academic benefits, Thomas queried, stem from diversity?

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Morning Docket: 05.01.23

Above The Law

Bloomberg Law News ] * North Carolina overrules precedent from last year because nothing matters and it's just a superlegislature. Law360 ] * Sugar daddy lawyer sued young woman for $166 million. Splash 247 ] * A profile on how ASS Law leverages Supreme Court connections to artificially inflate its apparent prestige. [

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