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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. by Dennis Crouch.

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5 Ways COVID-19 Will Transform Law Firms

SimplyLawJobs

It has been reported that the first instance of videoconferencing was in early April 2020, when the Texas Supreme Court had made the decision to implement it, having the lawyers and some of the justices appear remotely for an oral argument session.”. local government, property, family or criminal law. « Older Entries.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

While there is a fair debate over the policy of relocation by states like Texas and Florida, the effort to use the criminal process as part of that political debate is … well, pathetic. First, let’s look at the law. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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As Life Without Parole Cases Rise, Finding Public Defenders Grows Harder  

The Crime Report

In Texas, there’s a continuing dispute over whether the standards for death penalty defense apply if prosecutors seek life without parole instead. Most states have no rules, and someone just out of law school could handle a life-without-parole case in Illinois or Nebraska. Other states have minimal standards.

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

However, after the industrial revolution [and the rise of] the English working classes, there just weren’t enough police to keep whacking people over the head with the criminal law. Today, one out of every three adults in this country has a criminal or arrest history of some kind.

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The American Jacobin: How Some on the Left have Found Release in an Age of Rage

JonathanTurley

There is a counter-constitutional movement building in law schools and across the country. And although Mystal has not advocated violence, some on the left are turning to political violence and criminal acts. In a New York Timesop-ed , The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed, law professors Ryan D.

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Jackson’s confirmation expected by end of week after committee deadlocks along partisan lines

SCOTUSBlog

Ted Cruz of Texas, who overlapped at Harvard Law School with Jackson, characterizing her as “charming” and “talented” and noting that he had “always liked her personally.” Mike Lee of Utah describing her “impressive qualifications” and Sen. But they assailed what Sen.