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Writing in Mother Jones, Stephanie Mencimer critiques the cult of Notorious RBG: But no amount of swag or hagiography can obscure the fact that, while Ginsburg is responsible for a great ...

This just in: Public Health Surveillance: Spying on America for Its Own Good? Symposium date: Friday, April 12, 2019 in Carbondale, Illinois at SIU School of Law Call for Papers:…

Roy Clark passed away last week at the age of 85. As the long-time host of the syndicated television show Hee-Haw, he is mostly remembered in some quarters as a ...

The Women’s March seems to be slowly self-destructing due to the leadership’s refusal to disavow their past associations with Louis Farrakhan. To an outside observer, this obduracy is inexplicable. It ...

Zhores Medvedev died last week, one day after his 93rd birthday. Although not tremendously well known in the West, Zhores (a biochemist) and his twin brother Roy (a historian), who…

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The second annual Equality  Law Scholars' Forum kicks off at UC Davis tomorrow.  I'm looking forward to being one of the commentators on a fantastic set of papers. Here are…

This just in: Penn State Law in University Park seeks to hire a 2-year clinical law VAP to direct our family law clinic. This is a great opportunity for someone…

The genius of the First Amendment is that it applies even those who do not respect or believe in it. The same goes for academic freedom, which encourages the broadest…

This just in: The University of Wisconsin Law School seeks applications for the William H. Hastie Fellowship. The application deadline is February 1, 2019. For over forty years, the Hastie…