JonathanTurley

JUNE 2, 2021

A “White Accountability & Anti-Racist Education” workshop had a session on “ White Women’s Work: Lessons from Engaging in Antiracist Work. How about teaching race issues in law school or anthropology classes? A high school teacher may be White but also be an extraordinary teacher of Spanish.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 6, 2022

Georgetown University Law School Professor Rosa Brooks has drawn accolades and criticism for her appearance on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” after declaring that Americans are “slaves” to the U.S. Constitution and that the Constitution itself is now the problem for the country.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 29, 2022

Considering the subject matter, and the call of the question, the use of the “n _” and “b _” was certainly unwarranted as it did not serve any educational purpose. Instead, he was suspended — a decision that clearly will create a chilling effect on other academics at the school. The question was culturally insensitive and tone-deaf.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Mystal, who stated earlier this month that white, non-college-educated voters supported Republicans in the 2021 races in part because they care about “ using their guns on Black people and getting away with it ,” not surprisingly, has written that this trial is a sham.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2021

The New York Times is reporting that a Rutgers Law Professor and law student are under fire after the student reluctantly read the n-word in a 1993 legal opinion. It is the latest such controversy in high education. I am assuming that the professor and students were discussing State v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2024

There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School over a diversity fellowship sponsored by the law firm of Jones Day. Despite being created by a law firm and administered by a law school, the fellowship violated federal law in excluding white and male applicants.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2022

The ACLU historically opposed laws that denied free speech and other rights under the Constitution, a legacy that I have long cherished and supported. However, this is a transparency law that simply requires teachers and schools to post the educational materials used in class online.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Board of Education , many people seem to be embracing racial segregation as a public good. Yet, despite the Supreme Court recently declaring such criteria to constitute racial discrimination, some colleges and universities are circumventing the decision with new pathways to maintain race-based admission goals. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Here is the column: Harvard University has long prided itself on being the place for “curve-breakers,” a super-achieving university that leaves other schools as distant seconds. Harvard was ranked dead last as the country’s most hostile school for free speech.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. Kentucky , which upheld a state law banning interracial education even in private schools where everyone chose to learn together. Board of Education might have begun in, say, 1883 instead. Board of Education. I corresponded with Canellos about his book.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2024

The current anti-free speech movement in the United States has its origins in higher education, where faculty have long argued that free speech is harmful. Starting in secondary schools, we have raised a generation of speech phobics who believe that opposing views are triggering and dangerous. .” You have to make them afraid.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. It’s not an unfamiliar position for the Supreme Court justice, but it generated surprising support at a leading law school. The reason? His vote to overturn Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

In the first few years of the scandal, Biden associates — and Hunter himself — emphasized that he was a highly educated lawyer with executive-level experience to offer these companies. The problem with this line of defense, however, is that it runs into some glaring contradictions.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2022

The New York Times column called for citizens to view the Constitution as the real enemy and to push to “radically alter the basic rules of the game.” The attack on our Constitution has become something of an article of faith for the far left in recent years. Constitution “trash” and argued that we should ideally just dump it.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The attacks on the court are part of a growing counterconstitutional movement that began in higher education and seems recently to have reached a critical mass in the media and politics. Barbara McQuade of the University of Michigan Law School has called free speech America’s “Achilles’ heel.” That’s what some have in mind.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 2, 2024

As discussed in the book, our own anti-free speech movement began in higher education where it continues to rage. George Washington University Law School Professor Mary Anne Franks believes that the First Amendment is “aggressively individualistic” and needs to be rewritten to “redo” the work of the Framers.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll has denounced the “weaponization” of free speech , which appears to be the use of free speech by those on the right. It is the antithesis of free speech and the failure of schools to protect the exercise of free speech is the antithesis of higher education. I disagree.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

The announcement fulfilled a campaign promise by the president, who last fall proposed the idea of a commission after he declined to endorse efforts by liberals to expand the Supreme Court – efforts that Justice Stephen Breyer criticized in a speech on Tuesday at Harvard Law School. Elise Boddie, professor of law and Judge Robert L.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Attorney Michael Morgan is dedicated to helping injury victims seek the compensation they deserve and holding negligent Lessons Learned In Law School KPI: With great power comes great responsibility. AB: Organization and time management are the keys to success—and will ensure you maintain your sanity during law school and bar prep.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Law schools routinely hold panels on cases like Dobbs v. The loss of diversity of viewpoints on our faculties represents an existential threat to higher education. This is hardly unique. The result is an echo chamber that reflects the lack of diversity on most faculties. The threat is not simply to the erosion of free speech.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on the rise of a generation of censors with attacks on both academic freedom and free speech throughout our educational system. This trend has reached law schools, which is ominous since these students are the future judges and lawyers who are expected to defend these core principles.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 1, 2022

There is an interesting free speech fight brewing at the University of California Berkeley Law School after nine student groups banned any speakers that support Israel or Zionism. This is only the latest example of the growing intolerance for opposing views that now characterizes higher education.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 7, 2025

.” Senior Ninth Circuit Judge Marsha Berzon was a colleague of Grodin’s as a labor lawyer and appeared before him when he was a Supreme Court justice, but knew him best as a co-teacher for 10 years in a constitutional law seminar class at UC Law San Francisco (then Hastings College of Law).

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

She has called for “genuine” law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness” in teaching such subjects. It is the latest voice of intolerance and orthodoxy at a leading law school. In the age of rage, calls for radical action from both professors and students have been particularly amplified at Georgetown University.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The number of republican, conservative and libertarian faculty members have plummeted at most schools in the last twenty years. ” I have personally been in meetings where such claims were made about the relative absence of liberal scholars on faculties and dominance of conservative ideology at law schools.

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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. THE CRIME REPORT: Does that frustrate you?

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JonathanTurley

JULY 29, 2024

Here are is the column: Recently, I wrote a Hill column criticizing NewsGuard, a rating operation being used to warn users, advertisers, educators and funders away from media outlets based on how it views the outlets’ “credibility and transparency.” Studies show that the vast majority of law professors run from the left to the far left.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the time, she said that she doubted “that we’re going to see another affirmative action case … at least in education.”. Bollinger , the Court divided 5-4 on upholding admissions criteria used to achieve “diversity” in a class at Michigan Law School. Ginsburg’s comment notably omitted two additional facts.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2025

That statement brought a quick rebuke from Ed Whelan, who noted that Nourse previously testified that presidents have “no role” in the constitutional process when the president was Donald Trump. The Harvard Crimson has documented how the schools departments have virtually eliminated Republicans.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

These appointments are already influencing rulings on key areas, including administrative law, corporate litigation, and constitutional law. Trump has expanded attacks to include law schools and firms that support diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Gender identity.

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