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Showing posts with label equal protection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label equal protection. Show all posts
Thursday, April 18, 2024

My writing is 'not very good,' and other reasons you can't get ahead in our not-really-a meritocracy

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Pxhere CC0 A purported mentor once told me that probably I couldn't find a job in academics because my "writing is not very good.&...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Weapon of Putin's war, anti-gay law jars NHL in US

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The NHL Chicago Blackhawks Sunday will host an annual Pride Night , but the team will not be wearing warm-up pride jerseys as intended, fo...
Monday, July 4, 2022

U.S. footballers celebrate equal pay settlement

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Alex Morgan (Jamie Smed CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons) I was elated in April to hear of a proposed $24m settlement in the equal pay dispu...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Law profs fault vague, empty ABA 'diversity' proposal

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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. ...
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Monday, February 1, 2021

See America in black and white

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13th Amendment With the imprimatur of federal law , today is National Freedom Day , celebrating the day that President Abraham Lincoln signe...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Ciao and shalom, it's Columbus Day

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It was painful and offensive to me to see the Columbus statue in Baltimore ripped down and thrown into the harbor on the Fourth of July. I ...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

'Miss Juneteenth' speaks both to problems of our times and to timeless problems

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Thanks to the Duke (University) Screen/Society , yesterday, I virtually attended a screening and discussion of the 2020 film from Vertical E...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Research for educational opportunity, accountability requires transparency, need not forgo student privacy

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When I had the privilege of working on transparency issues in the Arkansas General Assembly in the 20-aughts, two legislators and I promoted...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

U.S. female footballers suffer slide tackle in equal pay match: Understanding the summary judgment decision

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U.S. co-captain Alex Morgan is the first named plaintiff. ( Photo by Jamie Smed CC BY 2.0 .) The women of U.S. Soccer suffered a maj...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

No bulls*** on the pitch. Vote Rapinoe!

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The local football pitch in Reino de Tor, Guinea-Bissau. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 . Vote Megan Rapinoe for BBC Women's Footbal...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Poli sci panels span U.S. con law, Tunisian Arab Spring, Japanese ag reg, Chinese investment in Africa

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On the final day of the annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Saturday, April 27, I was treated to more intriguin...