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Calling New Patent Law Professors

Patently O

Every year, law schools advertise open faculty positions via a Faculty Appointments Register sponsored by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). This year’s list was just released, and lots of schools are looking to hire patent and IP professors. The new hire then starts work the following summer.

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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

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Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School.

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USD Law Professor Under Investigation For Column Criticizing Chinese Government

JonathanTurley

University of San Diego Law Professor Thomas Smith has been put under investigation for the use of an offensive term in a column criticizing the Chinese government and its role in the pandemic. A core value of the University of San Diego School of Law is that all members of the community must be treated with dignity and respect.

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Rutgers Professor and Law Student Under Fire for Reading Racial Slur From Judicial Opinion

JonathanTurley

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. That triggers a petition from students to demand action from the law school and apologies from both the professor and the student.

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Morrison: Time to Give DC Residents A Vote in Congress

JonathanTurley

I have repeatedly testified and written on the constitutional barriers to such a vote absent statehood. See Jonathan Turley, Too Clever By Half: The Partial Representation of the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives , 76 George Washington University Law Review 305 -374 (2008). I was delighted when he accepted.

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Child 3930: The Implausible and Wonderful Life of Tom Buergenthal

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Messenger on the passing of one of the greatest figures in human rights law, my former colleague Tom Buergenthal. With the passing of Thomas Buergenthal , I lost a mentor, a colleague and a friend, and the world lost a towering figure of international law who helped to create the field of human rights law.

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Biden to create bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform

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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. Cardozo School of Law. Guy-Uriel E.