Conflict of Laws

MARCH 5, 2025

A new paper by Michael Green , A Plea for Private International Law (Conflict of Laws) , was recently published as an Essay in the Notre Dame Law Review Reflection. Michael argues that although private international law is increasingly important in our interconnected world, it has fallen out of favor at top U.S.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . Harper stems from a challenge to North Carolina’s congressional and legislative redistricting plan as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. The North Carolina General Assembly immediately appealed that ruling.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2022

With the start of classes at George Washington Law School, I have already had visits to my office of conservative and libertarian students asking if I thought they could speak freely in other classes without being penalized by professors. It is now routine.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 24, 2025

Affirmative action may have been dismantled in higher education and diversity may be under attack, but this hasn’t stopped students from navigating the pathway to law school. Heres the methodology that was used: We graded schools based on how well each school matches with the U.S.

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Above The Law

APRIL 17, 2023

They've received a lot of support from fellow law students. The post Law School’s Ban Of 2L Draws Protest From Students appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

JULY 8, 2021

Now, LexisNexis and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Law School Consortium have partnered to launch a fellowship initiative for 12 law students to spend nine months working to end this systemic racism and further the rule of law. . We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out. .

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Anthony Perkins in a still photo from Orson Well’s 1962 film version of “The Trial” In Franz Kafka’s sinister 1925 novel, The Trial, the hero finds himself the defendant in a court case where he is unaware of what law he has broken. In 17 states, judges with no law degree are permitted to adjudicate eviction cases.”.

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Above The Law

MARCH 16, 2023

Take that, North Carolina. Source NM ] * Plan on clerking any time after law school? Bloomberg Law ] The post Morning Docket: 03.16.23 appeared first on Above the Law. You should probably know about the ministerial exception — here's a primer. [ You might want to reconsider exercising your right to protest.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2023

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has delivered a body blow to free speech as well as academic freedom in a ruling against a statistics professor at North Carolina State University. Professor Stephen Porter objected to what he considered the lower standards used by his school to hire minority faculty.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Marisa Wright is a US national staff correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . When newly seated Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from the Harvard case, the Court split them back up so that she could hear the case against North Carolina. The case, Students for Fair Admissions Inc.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Brianna Joaseus and Edrius Stagg are two law students at Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, La., Both students stand as inspiring examples of those who are shaping the future of the legal profession and their schools are examples of how law schools can do more to drive change in their communities.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 5, 2024

Korie Dean of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina reports that “ Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks at Duke to honor ‘pathbreaking figure.’ ” Rusty Jacobs of WUNC reports that “ SCOTUS Chief Justice avoids hot topics in appearance at Duke.” Roberts Jr.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions Inc. Grutter involved the University of Michigan Law School’s admissions plan, which used race as part of individual, holistic consideration of applicants.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

How many of the lawyers out there liked hypotheticals in law school? So, for those of you who enjoy hypotheticals, here it is: Company A, a North Carolina LLC, owns four patents. Company B has the same corporate address in North Carolina and the same five shareholders as Company A.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In my LawNext podcast , I have the great privilege of engaging in conversations every week with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” Notably, the most-downloaded episode featured a discussion of how law schools should teach tech, with April G. Valuation.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 7, 2021

District attorneys around the country are deeply involved in lobbying for tough criminal justice legislation, but the minority of prosecutors who push for reform measures exert a powerful influence on state legislators, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Law School. and do not make?the

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. United States law has long rejected the notion that racism can be good or benign, and rightly so. Instead, they are a harm that our laws and Constitution do not permit. President & Fellows of Harvard College. A preview of the case is here.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2022

A recent report from the Quattrone Center on the Fair Administration of Jujstice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School provides comprehensive guidelines for “collaboration agreements” that outline how to handle discovery of misconduct and other delicate issues like media relationships and information sharing.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Law schools are also facing controversial mandates. In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” and Maurice C.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 21, 2022

by David Hricik, Mercer Law School. In North Carolina Legal Eth. Giving a talk in Austin and thought I’d share a couple of interesting results I’ll be speaking about later today. This applies even if opposing counsel is present, as discussed below.). 2012-7 (Oct. The conclusion?

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2021

Now University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, who is a student of color, has faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president for simply stating that he did not consider an argument between two fellow students to be racist. An argument ensued over who was privileged.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I am happy to announce the publication of my latest law review article, The Unfinished Masterpiece: Compulsion and the Evolving Jurisprudence Over Free Speec h. Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University. The article is the outgrowth of remarks that I gave a Maryland Law School at a Supreme Court symposium.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School. There is, however, case law to the contrary not acknowledged by the ABA. For example, North Carolina Legal Eth. Ordinarily, under Model Rule 4.2 In Formal Ethics Opinion 503 (Nov. 2, 2022) ( here ), the ABA indicated that implied consent likely occurs under these circumstances.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 12, 2023

Last night, Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Law School Dean Jenny Martinez issued a joint apology that is commendable in its words of regret, but conspicuous in its failure to promise any action against those who shutdown this event. .” Steinbach’s condemnation of Judge Duncan was chilling but hardly surprising.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Bernstein holds a university professorship chair at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Share This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming arguments in Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard College.

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Connor Reporting

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Social Media – Discovery, Ethics, Evidence & Sanctions We’ll review the pervasive world of social media providing counsel with focused information on its integral presence in the practice of law from an ethical, discovery, evidentiary and practice perspective. Law Practice Management hour, not CLE. . *

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Instead, the punishment regime adopted by states since the 1990s is fueling a ”geriatric explosion” in the nation’s prisons that’s likely to overwhelm the correctional system’s ability to provide the services needed for aging prisoners, warned criminologist Frank Baumgartner of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In my LawNext podcast , I have the great privilege of engaging in conversations every week with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” Notably, the most-downloaded episode featured a discussion of how law schools should teach tech, with April G. Valuation.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Ho of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently made headlines when he publicly declared that he would no longer consider graduates of Yale Law School for clerkship positions due to the erosion of free speech rights at the university. Judge James C.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The survey covered The Ohio State University, University of Nebraska-Omaha, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Georgia, Cornell University, University of Oklahoma and the University of Alaska-Anchorage. Another survey found that only nine percent of law professors identified as conservative.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Researchers at the Quattrone Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, created what they said was a unique dataset of 4,644 opinions in which allegations of misconduct were raised in the more than 1.5 million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2021

We recently discussed the case of University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, a student of color, who faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president. The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. .

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems? This is not to say that 2021 was without innovation.

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MyCase

MARCH 10, 2023

Accidentally commingling or misusing those funds can have very serious consequences for lawyers, so maintaining IOLTA account compliance is top of mind for many law firms. Unfortunately, most law schools don’t spend enough time going into the practical ways this is done.

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 4, 2020

In addition, we heard from Clio co-founder Jack Newton how it’s possible for today’s law firm clients to walk away unsatisfied despite getting the result they wanted. And finally, we received an update from ABA president Judy Perry Martinez about her mid-tenure progress as well as recent ABA resolutions aimed at evolving the practice of law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

For example, as of August 2016, North Carolina had 1,173 MW of installed solar photovoltaic (“PV”) capacity as a direct result of PURPA. Jeffrey Hammons is an Associate Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center in Chicago, IL, where his litigation practice covers issues of pollution control and energy law.

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JURIST

AUGUST 29, 2023

Local police announced Monday that an active shooter on the University of North Carolina’s (UNC) Chapel Hill campus shot and killed a faculty member. The shooting has renewed calls across the US for stricter gun laws, especially affecting college campuses and schools. We need legislative change.”

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