At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Malcolm Maclachlan reports in today’s Daily Journal about impending state legislation to change the name of the UC Hastings law school because of recent focus on the institution’s founder, Serranus Hastings. In 1878, he donated $100,000 of his considerable wealth to found Hastings College of Law. 276-280, 348-350.).

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 28, 2023

Recent years have witnessed, in private international law cases and legislation, the protection of children is increasingly mingled with gender, indigenous issues, refugees, violence, war, surrogacy technology, etc. This is evidenced by the US Supreme Court 2022 judgment Golan v.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 8, 2023

Recent years have witnessed, in private international law cases and legislation, the protection of children is increasingly mingled with gender, indigenous issues, refugees, violence, war, surrogacy technology, etc. This is evidenced by the US Supreme Court 2022 judgment Golan v.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Professor Kerameus started his academic career at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in his home town, and completed his career at the University of Athens. He taught Civil Procedure, Comparative and International Procedural Law in Greek and other leading Universities abroad. In Memoriam Prof.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Emory Law TI:GER Program was unique with its multidisciplinary approach to integrating technology commercialization and legal education. I was excited to lead this effort at the law school and continue to see great outcomes for our graduates.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Biden administration is calling on law firms and law schools to help fight evictions following a U.S. Supreme Court decision last week to remove protections created by the federal government in response to the pandemic, reports Bloomberg News.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

KOÇ UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL . CASE LAW SYMPOSIUM: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN DOMESTIC, INTERNATIONAL, AND FOREIGN JUDICIARIES. Koç University Law School is pleased to invite applications for the case law symposium on recent developments in domestic, international, and foreign judiciaries which will be held on 7 October 2022.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Share The court will hear its second bankruptcy case of the week next Tuesday, with Bartenwerfer v. Dissatisfied with the purchase, Buckley eventually obtained a judgment in a California state court based on the failure of the Bartenwerfers to disclose information about the house on the standard-form Transfer Disclosure Statement.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

Two babies born in English prisons have died in the past three years and Rona Epstein, in an op-ed for The Guardian , asks why the courts are still sending pregnant women there. The starting point must be that no pregnant woman should be in custody and, if custody is decided upon, the reasons must be stated and justified in open court. “No

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 10, 2021

Dodge (Professor, University of California, Davis, School of Law). & & Wenliang Zhang (Associate Professor, Renmin University of China Law School). The decision disagrees with every other U.S. The agreement was governed by Chinese law and provided that suits could be resolved by courts in Beijing.

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Patently O

MARCH 24, 2022

Editors note – I invited Professor Nina Mendelson (University of Michigan Law School) to author a guest post after reading her 2020 Admin. Law Review article titled “ The Permissibility of Acting Officials: May the President Work Around Senate Confirmation? The leading Supreme Court decision, United States v.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 13, 2022

This was reflected in the broad range of presentations, which featured both traditional and novel approaches to Private International Law (PIL). The two-day Festival included seven panels, the Forum Conveniens Annual Lecture at Edinburgh Law School and a book launch.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

the morning of a critical meeting at Harvard Law School, where I worked. Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The majority of the Supreme Court is once again shifting their interpretation of the law in order to support right-wing political objectives! More law schools are kicking USNWR rankings to the curb. We're now at 10 percent of law schools that say they will not participate in the ranking process.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 7, 2023

Written by Christina Shin, University of Sydney Law School On 1 June 2023, International Children’s Day, the University of Sydney’s Centre for Asian and Pacific Law (CAPLUS) hosted an online webinar discussing the issue of children’s welfare and voices in private international law (PIL).

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 3, 2022

Supreme Court. Jackson will replace Justice Stephen Breyer who is set to retire when the Court’s term ends this summer. While Jackson’s confirmation will not shift the balance of the Court, it will make the Court more diverse and more reflective of the country. Jackson is also the Court’s sixth female justice.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the Supreme Court accepting two cases dealing with racial preferences in college admissions. Here is the column: Last year, I wrote about the Supreme Court’s “train whistle” docket with cases on abortion, guns, immigration, and other issues barreling down the track. Second, courts change.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

In a series of tweets this week, Professor Heidi Li Feldman has denounced “lawless” and “actively rogue” Supreme Court justices and professors who disagree with her views on the Constitution. She has called for “genuine” law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness” in teaching such subjects.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

During his time as an associate justice from 1877 to 1911, he broke with his colleagues in some of the most consequential – and infamous – rulings that the court has ever issued. He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. Harlan also joined a unanimous court in 1889 in rejecting a challenge to the Chinese Exclusion Act.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 23, 2021

The decision has already started to populate briefings in other climate cases brought by state and local governments against fossil fuel companies, and it will undoubtedly occupy a good deal of debate as those cases progress, both in the current stage of removal-remand battles and in the motions to dismiss that will follow.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 4, 2021

As I discussed yesterday , I was astonished by the remarks of President Joe Biden on his support for extending the eviction moratorium, which was found to be unconstitutional by lower courts. It was later preserved by a divided Supreme Court despite the view of a majority that it was unconstitutional.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Second Circuit Rejected New York City’s State Law Climate Claims Against Oil Companies. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of New York City’s lawsuit seeking climate change damages from oil companies. The Second Circuit’s decision largely followed the reasoning of the district court’s 2018 decision.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 9, 2024

As Democrats ramp up their efforts for the 2024 election, some are dangling an old enticement from 2020: if we win, we can pack the Court. In the last election, President Joe Biden refused to say if he favored packing the Court. who has questioned the need for a Supreme Court. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Richard Ashby Wilson, associate law school dean at the University of Connecticut, said “Trump crossed the Rubicon and incited a mob to attack the U.S. Ohio , where the Supreme Court stressed that even “advocacy of the use of force or of law violation” is protected unless it is imminent. Trump’s Jan.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. CHEMERINSKY: I think you’re asking two things.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The threat to the free press is obvious and was the basis for foundational court decisions. The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision over 50 years ago in New York Times v. Like “disinformation,” it is heavily laden with subjectivity.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 10, 2023

We are awaiting the potential blockbuster ruling of the Supreme Court in the Harvard and North Carolina college admissions cases. After decades of conflicting and confusing rulings on the use of race as a factor for admissions, the Court could be close to rejecting the practice. Second, courts change. Bakke (1978).

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger of the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election. Here is the column: he Colorado Supreme Court has issued an unsigned opinion, making history in the most chilling way possible. In California, Lieutenant Gov.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Supreme Court takes the bench in Trump v. Anderson, about whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in excluding former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot. 6, 2021, and whose report was admitted into evidence by the Colorado trial court. (I Courts will review those decisions.

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