Above The Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

And while it’s nice to see schools take stands for diversity, being on the right side of history usually doesn’t pay the bills quite like falling in line. Law schools have already begun scrubbing mentions of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from their websites to stay in the federal funding running.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 5, 2023

The post From Law School Trolling To Solicitor General In Less Than 4 Years appeared first on Above the Law. A sad commentary.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 22, 2023

The post Law School Student Running For Mayor appeared first on Above the Law. She’s up for the difficult task of juggling torts with campaigns.

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JURIST

MARCH 27, 2023

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. This narrative, I believe, is stereotypical, especially in the recent Islamophobic climate in India, even more so against Pakistan.

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Above The Law

MARCH 12, 2025

The most viral moment comes from a back and forth about DEI and if government agencies receive tax cuts for hiring people of color (they don’t): Sam Seder’s critical thinking chops are presumably heterogeneous, but some of the honing may have come from his time at Boston University School of Law. Go Terriers!

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JANUARY 4, 2024

“Elena Kagan For President of Harvard University; Kagan, the former Harvard Law School dean who now works in government, was once a finalist for the university president role; Is this her time to come home?” ” Jay Willis has this post at Balls and Strikes.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 24, 2022

The post Yale Law School Grad JD Vance’s Opioid Charity Less About Helping People, More About Parroting Big Pharma appeared first on Above the Law. Not a good look.

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Above The Law

JULY 22, 2021

And now we enter the final act.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

” The court thus allowed the Chinese government to consider foreign embassies within China as “espionage organization[s].” ” The Chinese government arrested Dong in February 2022 while he was dining with a Japanese diplomat at a Beijing restaurant.

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Patently O

JUNE 6, 2021

He authors a series linking law school canonical cases with intellectual property counterparts. Factor 5 – the shared interest of the several states in furthering fundamental substantive social policies: Given that the same patent laws govern all states, there is no conflict in litigating in the Northern District of California.

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JURIST

APRIL 10, 2023

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. In a conversation with The Leaflet , Mehmood Pracha opined, “Since the present government is deliberately acting in a criminal manner, strong public presence in the form of peaceful protests on the streets is required.”

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JURIST

JULY 18, 2023

During my first week in Accra, I had the opportunity to join Ghanaian law students from GIMPA Law School, one of the most prestigious university law faculties in Ghana, for a dinner. As we enjoyed jollof rice and stew, we compared notes on our respective law school experiences.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

And a few law schools quietly reworked their websites to remove diversity language. appeared first on Above the Law. Speaking of aimless, former judge Alex Kozinski penned a meandering opinion piece about canceling elections in case, maybe, some president might want to consider it. They probably won’t be the last.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Attorneys Fleeing From Government Work: And are finding a challenging job market. Law School Applications Are Up! Good luck making sense of Con Law under this administration ! And For My Next Act, Competent U.S. Attorney! : Ed Martin is really making a show of it.

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JURIST

MARCH 29, 2021

JURIST law student staffers have drafted and launched a petition calling on law students worldwide to support Myanmar law students defending democracy, human rights and the rule of law following the February 1 military coup that led to the overthrow of the elected civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 5, 2021

It's worth taking some time to get inside the heads of those who enable this conduct.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Unfortunately, many law schools have already taken such actions. Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. The post Colleges, Law Schools Need To ‘Make Reasoned Decisions’ Before Taking Rash Steps Concerning DEI Policies appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

While the word choice here was “determining” and “predicting,” the real concern is seeing how long it takes for the government to punish “acknowledging the mention of race” or some other protected characteristic by proxy. Louis School of Law.

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Above The Law

MARCH 6, 2025

The Court reasoned that the government may have in interest in having people in positions of authority that represent the demographics of the troops that they lead. Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Louis School of Law.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Guest Blog: Rethinking Private International Law Education – Insights from a Global Webinar Written by: Corinna Chen (CAPLUS research intern, 2024, Sydney Law School, Australia) Private international law (PIL) plays a critical role in shaping how future legal professionals and citizens engage with a complex, interconnected world.

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JURIST

AUGUST 11, 2023

This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. According to the government, the bill aims to restore and maintain the democratic and administrative balance in the governance of the capital. This comes after the bill was passed in the lower house of the parliament on August 3.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. The event was attended by top government officials, legal luminaries, and members of the judiciary.

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Above The Law

JULY 17, 2024

Law school graduates understand how journals work, but most people will be duped. Vance Described As ‘Editor Of The Yale Law Journal’… Which Seems A Tad Misleading appeared first on Above the Law. The post J.D.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

of law school students were women — outnumbering their male counterparts. A previous professor and current mentor of mine disclosed her struggles with this dilemma to my class during the first year of law school, which consisted largely of women, sharing how she used this conflict as motivation to become her own boss.

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The Crime Report

JULY 19, 2021

Capitol, elected officials and terrorism experts revived previous calls for Congress to pass a domestic terrorism statute that would empower the federal government to investigate and pursue white supremacists and other domestic terrorists with the same tools it uses to go after international terrorism. Following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 25, 2022

The report, co-authored by Fortify Rights and the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, is focused primarily on the six months following Myanmar’s 2021 military coup. ” The NLD, or National League for Democracy, was Myanmar’s duly elected governing party prior to the military coup.

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JURIST

JULY 11, 2023

President Guillermo Lasso announced that the census would be used to help government form new public policy to tackle overcrowding and enforce human rights in Ecuadorian prisons. This article was written by Aimee Woodmass, a student at Newcastle Law School, GB.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

Miller presents the kind of simple facts that populate law-school hypotheticals. The shareholders (who control the business) use some of its funds to pay off their own debts, including taxes owed to the federal government. All that Section 106 does is give courts jurisdiction to hear [Section 544] claims against the government.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2023

Numerous women in Afghanistan have received education and training to work in judicial and prosecutorial institutions over the past 20 years, often with the help of international aid. Female students dominated law schools, and training facilities attempted to prepare both genders for careers in the legal industry.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

India Staff Correspondent Sambhav Sharma, a final year law student at Amity Law School, says that recurrent beatings of Muslims without government countermeasures may be normalizing Islamophobia in India. These shocking and rather inciting comments were made by an elected representative of the government.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

Before Bruen , we understood there were some arms that the government can regulate — no civilian rocket launchers. After Bruen , a regulating government has to resort to what is effectively mereology. Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Louis School of Law.

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JURIST

JULY 18, 2022

Sri Lankan law students are reporting for JURIST on the situation in that country since mass protests and the physical invasion of the President’s House in Colombo by demonstrators forced the departure and resignation of Sri Lanka’s president and precipitated the imposition of emergency rule.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The world would have been better off if he went to a real law school, like Temple. The post Ron DeSantis Claims Victimhood For Having Attended Yale And Harvard Law appeared first on Above the Law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, together with New York Sea Grant, is pleased to announce a writing competition for law students interested in writing on legal and policy issues associated with marine carbon dioxide removal. Articles should be 15,000 words in length.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Julianne Moores Freckleface Strawberry And JD Vances Hillbilly Elegy Among Cooks Caught In Defense Department Review [Pen.org] Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.

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LawSites

JUNE 23, 2021

This latest report— of which I have seen only the executive summary — shows that this trend applies across law librarian specialties. It conducted surveys for each of the three main legal information library types: academic, firm/corporate, and government. In addition, 79.1 More than 80 percent (81.8%) created new services and 78.2

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JURIST

JUNE 4, 2021

However, all the law schools of India come under the supervision of the Bar Council of India which maintains the standards of examinations in law schools. So, all the students except law students appeared for their postponed exams after a period of time.

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