Posts by Ediberto Roman

One would be challenged to find an academic without an opinion on Judge Amy Coney Barrett's impending nomination to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. On Saturday morning Politico Magazine featured the views…

many law reviews have either closed or are soon closing their submission seasons. For instance, I understand the Yale Law Journal closes its season this Wednesday--the self-interested part of me…

While currently in the  midst of writing, teaching, and being my usual annoying self, of late I have also been in the throws of helping law faculty candidates with their…

Fellow academics, I am not sure if you are like me, and find yourselves primping before your law classes like never before? I now often laugh at myself as I…

Reminiscent of the Rachael Dolezal controversy, where a purported African-American Spokane, Wash. NAACP president was subsequently exposed as White, this week a professor of African and Latin American studies that…

Here is, in one way or another, something I suspect many of us have considered: what should I do if my university or law school orders me to start the…

My pain for decades:  

Recent questions concerning Senator Kamala Harris' eligibility to become vice-president have reached national headlines, and has even been raised during President Trump's press conferences. In the end, her eligibility turns…

In Newsweek today, Professor Eugene Volokh beat me to the punch, and wrote a fantastic response to John Eastman's previous Newsweek article on Kamala Harris's eligibility to become vice-president. Here…

Dean John Eastman recently penned a Newsweek article where he questions Kamala Harris's eligibility to serve as vice president. The good dean compares's the Constitution's Article II requirement of having…