Legal Affairs
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Race or Class? The Future of Affirmative Action on the College Campus
Jun 22, 2014Focusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action.
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Sex, Lies and Justice
Jan 12, 2015Can we reconcile the belated attention to rape on campus with due process?
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What to Do When 'I Do' Is Done
Feb 05, 2015LGBT activists and funders are debating the movement’s post-marriage priorities.
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Should Liberals Back Public Employee Unions?
Jul 12, 2015The stakes in the new battle over unions have far-reaching implications.
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Supreme Court Decision in Janus Looms Over Critical Public-Sector Jobs and Public Services
Jun 15, 2018Wealthy donors and corporations backing the plaintiffs have little stake in the public education, social welfare, and other municipal systems that they largely do not use.
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The Gawker Case Has Become More Interesting
Jun 14, 2018Charles Harder, the lawyer who brought down Gawker, may have played fast and loose with legal ethics in that case. He now represents Donald Trump against Stormy Daniels.
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#MeToo Too Far: Reflections on a Judge’s Recall in California
Jun 12, 2018The instinct to punish judges for an unpopular or mistaken decision is alive and well and imperiling judicial independence.
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The Press Is Wrong on Masterpiece Cakeshop. The Baker Lost.
Jun 05, 2018Bakery owner Jack Phillips got the decision he wanted, but the next time he turns away a same-sex couple, he will lose his case.
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Why the Mueller Investigation Is Constitutional
May 30, 2018Contrary to criticism by the chairman of the Federalist Society, the special counsel’s work is firmly grounded in precedent.
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Did the Supreme Court Just Gut the New Deal?
May 22, 2018Monday’s ruling banning employee class-action suits could open the door to destroying non-union workers' rights.
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Can American Democracy Withstand the Trumpian Barrage?
May 16, 2018Caught between alarm and cautious optimism, current and former officials, judges, and members of the news media analyzed the Trump presidency at a recent Georgetown University Law Center forum.
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Those Gig Drivers Aren't Independent Contractors -- They're Employees
May 04, 2018A new California Supreme Court ruling imperils the Uber model of exploitation.
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Trump Trashes the Constitution. So Where Are the Lawyers?
May 01, 2018Bar associations condemned Nixon during Watergate. Why are those organizations silent today?
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Trump’s Impotent Rage
Apr 17, 2018The window for firing Rosenstein or Mueller, and getting away with it, has closed.
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Wisconsin’s Scott Walker Versus the Blue Wave
Apr 04, 2018The anti-democratic governor accustomed to getting his way finally accepted his losses in the courts last week. What does Walker’s electoral overreach mean for the Badger State?
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The Federal Government's Secret War on Black Activists
Apr 04, 2018In a chilling echo of the 1960s, law enforcement agencies have stepped up surveillance of racial justice advocates and groups exercising their constitutional rights.
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The Scalia Problem: It Wasn’t Originalism or Textualism -- It Was Trumpism
Apr 04, 2018A review of Richard L. Hasen’s The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption
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Remembering Judge Stephen Reinhardt
Mar 30, 2018The legacy of the great liberal appellate judge, who died Thursday at 87
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The Radical Roots of Janus
Feb 27, 2018The attorney whose arguments were heard in the Supreme Court yesterday—a decade after his death—actually wanted all unions outlawed.
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