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Steven Lubet, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), once the “most prominent guardian of academic freedom” in the U.S., has lost its...
It is simply impossible for even the most book-smart 18-year-old to have acquired the life experience necessary for the competent practice of law.
Even “documented” immigrants will not be safe, because Miller has declared that he will pursue the seldom-used process of “denaturalization”...
Under the Supreme Court’s jumbled recusal practices, Gorsuch effectively voted to execute Glossip without reading the briefs or hearing the...
Political ideology discrimination may not violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, but it is nonetheless misconduct for a college professor.
The reality is that Trump fears Harris as a formidable opponent with a trial lawyer’s exceptional skills.
If the justices exploit the ethical loopholes they have provided for themselves, well, there is nobody who can even nominally stop them.
The tragic irony of the new AAUP position is that it will surely be used to promote the boycott of Israeli universities, which happen to be the most...
A second Trump administration would be bad for Palestine, bad for Israel and bad for America, which is something that even the most ardent protesters...
There is no telling how much damage the current Supreme Court majority could do in the years it would take for term limits to become effective.
There must be something about life tenure that makes it nearly impossible for federal judges to take responsibility for faults in their financial...
Republicans excelled at the long game, finally succeeding in a decades-long campaign to take full control of the Supreme Court.
The Federal Trade Commission's new rule prohibiting noncompete provisions in employment contracts, which takes effect on Sept. 4, will free millions...
Alito has demonstrated that the Supreme Court’s recusal process is broken beyond repair, and it may take a radical personnel change to address it.
Posting the Ten Commandments is an essentially religious act — not only because it favors religion over non-religion, but also because it invariably...
The boycott, including undergraduates and law students, is irrational, self-defeating and unethical — with no redeeming features.
To the writers who would flatten Pen America for the offense of insufficient demonization of Israel: Where will you find a champion, should the...
One of only two Muslim women in the U.S. Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has always been a vehemently outspoken critic of Israel. She explained...
I have seldom seen a case weaker than this one, and I have discouraged lawyers from filing recusal motions in more compelling circumstances.
No amount of courtesy, affability, relationship building or overall good feeling can justify the Supreme Court’s quiescence in the face of...
It may be that only a minority of the justices favored hearing the case, with a majority voting to let stand the lower court’s denial of immunity.
No senator, Democrat or Republican, at the recent hearing questioned the medical reality of long COVID, perhaps because at least three senators,...
The expressive rights of some students must not be subject to the political objections of others.
The issues are intricate, requiring novel determinations of both fact and law, with an implicit threat of disorder hanging over any outcome adverse to...
Whatever anyone thinks about Israel or Zionism, however, it should still be possible to protest the Gaza war without lurching into antisemitism.
Could Clarence Thomas possibly be “the best and most incorruptible Supreme Court justice in U.S. history”?
Thomas has silently signaled that he plans to sit in the Trump insurrection cases, conflicts of interest — and Code of Conduct — be damned.
There are, in fact, provisions that revise or contradict several of the court’s previous statements and practices, for better or worse.