Get It Together, NYU
Grad students are still striking. More than 600 are out picketing, and the University is doing nothing. Some NYU undergrads oppose the strike; that’s all fine and good, but I’d recommend they do five minutes of research before asserting that only the University has legal legs to stand on. Deans surreptitiously logged into the Blackboard [...]
...read moreOne School I’m Glad I Don’t Go To
Liberty University. Talk about fear of sex. Check out their code of conduct, and let’s consider what kind of values it demonstrates (this list is compressed): A $10 fine and four reprimands for: -Violating the “hair code” (that is, long “feminine” hair for men, or too-short “manly” haircuts for women) -Horseplay -”Unauthorized borrowing” (where I [...]
...read moreThe Little Supremes
Feldman for Supreme Court! Have I mentioned that I love Noah Feldman? I also love Rachel Barkow, and so many others. My all-NYU ideal Supreme Court: Rachel Barkow Noah Feldman Burt Neuborne Anthony Amsterdam Peggy Cooper Davis Ronald Dworkin Norman Dorsen David Garland Sylvia Law Gerald Lopez John Sexton Richard Revesz Joseph Weiller I know [...]
...read moreWomen in Law
Ruth Bader Ginsburg reminds all of us how far women in the law have come. It’s good to take a look back and see how much things have improved in just a few decades; it also serves as inspiration to keep pushing forward, and to refuse to accept the status quo as “good enough.” Ginsburg [...]
...read moreRight-Wing Elitism
As Atrios and Kos both pointed out today, many on the right — most notably Republican poster-skeleton Ann Coulter — are acting a wee bit elitist when it comes to Harriet Miers’ nomination. Coulter rips on her for not going to an Ivy League law school, insinuating that it speaks to her personal intelligence (it [...]
...read moreIn Memory: Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley, the first black woman to be a federal judge, the first female Manhattan borough president, and the first black woman to serve in the New York State Senate died two days ago, at 84. Judge Motley was at the center of the firestorm that raged through the South in the two decades [...]
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