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NCWM participants at Niagara University in July © used with permission With colleagues from around the world, I participated, as chair of th...

Adaptation of Joe Loong via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 A recent item in The Chronicle of Higher Education ( subscription ), excerpted by Paul Ca...

TUSM Arnold Wing, 2012, Boston John Phelan via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 Academic freedom won a rare court victory last week when the Mas...

You may review and sign on to a letter of the FAMU Hispanic American Law Student Association opposing Reyes's termination here.   Prof. ...

Is the American Bar Association (ABA) "Doing Enough to Promote Viewpoint Diversity?," panelists were asked at the ABA Midyear Meet...

Ted Eytan CC BY-SA 4.0 I've refrained from commenting on the Israel-Hamas war, specifically and especially on the eruption of conflict,...

Abortion rights rally at Stanford Law in 2022. (Suiren2022 via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 ) After the brouhaha at Stanford Law School i...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court two weeks ago struck down a town policy purporting to require civility in public meetings. The town...

In an article in the October Atlantic , Anne Applebaum examined the potentially devastating effect of cancel culture on academic and edito...

Angry Mob by Robert Couse-Baker, CC BY 2.0 Princeton politics professor Keith E. Whittington ( on the blog ) has a wisely worded op-ed , o...

Netflix's The Chair is an enjoyable six-episode sit com on the absurdity of academic politics in American higher education today.  The ...

For persons interested in the ongoing tumult at the University of Arkansas Little Rock Law School over the renaming of a professorship after...

Gan Khoon Lay CC BY 3.0 The accreditation of law schools by the American Bar Association would be a joke if it were more funny than costly. ...