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Law Prof, former dean, @NorthwesternLaw . Legal ed, innovation in legal services, state/local gov't, admin law, etc. @SlogLawBlog .
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Got approval from
@NorthwesternLaw
to create a pop-up online course on "Law in the Time of Corona." Many interesting & important legal issues, incl Stafford Act, state-local emergency responses, employment law, force majeure, liability, drug approval, etc. Ideas?
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Rumor has it that they are considering abolishing the bar exam at the end of the current lives of NCBE employees plus twenty one years. Wait, too soon?
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"End of life as we know it." Egad. Anyone else want to join bipartisan effort to reduce greatly the role of SCOTUS, in our law and in our culture?
@Andrew___Baker
@jadler1969
@CJSprigman
@BoutrousTed
@jedshug
@espinsegall
@jed_stiglitz
@pojanowski
@IlyaSomin
@CBHessick
A 6-3 Court is the end of life as we know it.
The fact that so many Dems are just treating this as something about decency or just health care or just RBG’s legacy is just fucking mind boggling.
This is the R’s end game - they get everything after this.
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So much end-of-term work, so many deadlines, but here is the grandkid blissfully ignorant of all that. Me too, briefly.
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I dare anyone to say that this isn't the greatest law graduation cake ever!
@NorthwesternLaw
@atlblog
@lawprofblawg
@ElieNYC
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Wow, where's this guy been all my professional life? I feel like the shades have been pulled from my eyes by this rigorous constitutional analysis. Off to rip up my old syllabus; hold my calls.
@AnthonyMKreis
@GGKrishnamoomoo
@espinsegall
@CJSprigman
On the other hand, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
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Let's make it official!
@NorthwesternLaw
has appointed
@DanLinna
to the faculty, to teach & mentor students, do scholarship, & help lead exciting initiatives in law-biz-tech space.
@NLawBizTech
@KarenSloanNLJ
@atlblog
@bobambrogi
@ronfriedmann
@rightbrainlaw
@NicoleBradick
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Justice Kagan on campus today to say, inter alia, that Major Questions doctrine is just made up, and light years from any respectable textualist reasoning. Yep.
@NorthwesternLaw
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We lost our little Rico Sauve over the weekend. 14 years of happiness. He was always very busy, and very much loved. Heartbroken. RIP.
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Thread on constitutional challenges to the two important vaxx mandates of today, Biden administration & LA Unified School District. Preface: Anyone who claims dead certainty about what fed courts, and maybe ultimately SCOTUS, will do is presumptuous. Complex dynamics at play,/1
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Done with deanship officially (now I can really say what's on my mind!!), but, as I cannot change my official handle, I'll just have to view the "Dean" part as honorific, as in "Colonel." Taking my "talents" to Cali now (visiting at Stanford Law). Deaning: It has been real.
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Diploma privilege for 2020 grads is a civil rights issue. There is a generation of BIPOC law grads who, with obstacles from absurd in-person and highly problematic remote exams, will be excluded from profession. Access right is a civil right.
@diplomaprivileg
@BarExamTracker
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Thanks, Twitter. This is what I come here for.
COOL! Geologist Finds Rare Formation Inside Rock That Looks Exactly Like Cookie Monster on Sesame Street. Photo via Facebook/Mike Bowers.
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Here's an amazing fact: The Beatles recorded and sent out commercially just nine hours of music total.
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@ElieNYC
is 100% right. I don't have time to write my own column, and not sure another column saying similar things well said here is warranted, but here is a quick take, fwiw: Folks are nervous because they think Jacobson (1905) is in serious jeopardy./1
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2nd grandchild born last night, while I was teaching my Admin Law class at Northwestern. Efforts to get the parents to name the little girl Londoner or BiMettalic were rebuffed.
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@McCormickProf
Trump base are not conservatives. Big source of our current, dismal predicament.
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IMHO, we shouldn't descend to Trump's insulting of judges qua judges. There's a lot of there in the liberal-left twitterverse. Bad on both ends. Stick to the opinion, no?
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hey, big accomplishment: I persuaded my law journal editors to let me include a smiley face emoji in my article. At exactly the right spot. Hell ya!
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Crushed to learn of the loss of Prof. Deborah Rhode. Such an inspiration and an A2J giant. RIP. Let her great work continue.
@IAALS
@jasonsolomon_
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Note to bar examiners in all these states that are defiant in their scheduled bar plans: Who do you think will have your back when all this is over? Not young lawyers; not law schools; not elected officials. You'll be all alone. And defendants.
#barpocalypse
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Count me in as one among the many, many who view the SJC refusal to call M Judge and other witnesses, as necessary, as utterly indefensible by any standards of fair process.
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How are we supposed to teach law students in a world in which the rule of law domestically does not constrain, globally is under assault w/POTUS blessing, and truth is under constant attack? What's the strategy? What remains pivotal in our classrooms? Asking for a friend.
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The trademark infringement aisle at the local pet store.
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I'll be tweeting regularly about my Marijuana law course at
@NorthwesternLaw
this term. Y'all have exactly 72 hours to get out all your cannabis-related witticisms before hard stop. I've heard them all. (Talking to you
@lawprofblawg
).
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I am troubled by this, candidly. What do others think?
Daniil Medvedev, the world No 1 tennis player, could face a ban from Wimbledon unless he provides public assurances that he is not a supporter of President Putin
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My great
@NorthwesternLaw
colleague, Deb Tuerkheimer, with her terrific new book on sexual assault, Credible: How we Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers.
@HariOsofsky
@JulietSorensen1
@LeahLitman
@ProfMMurray
@ElieNYC
@RachelBarkow
@CBHessick
@droithmayr
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.
@NorthwesternLaw
I am pleased to share the news that my colleague, Prof. Kim Yuracko, will become the next Northwestern law dean effective with the new academic year. Kudos and all well wishes!
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I don't begrudge those state bars which decided on online bar exam to replace in-person debacle. Many were working to do something meaningful for grads. Now we know this is a mess, and the courageous thing is to reconsider.
@BarExamTracker
@ISBAPresident
@molliejmcguire
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Devastated at the passing of my mentor, my co-author, my friend, Mat McCubbins. I have a longer note on Facebook. Will try to figure out how to post it here. Meanwhile, forgive me for the scattered twitter reflections. It's hard to process. But he did live a full life.
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@conor64
@AnthonyMKreis
@GGKrishnamoomoo
@espinsegall
@CJSprigman
You're like that student -- that guy, because it's almost always a guy -- who cobbles together from the internet, a few articles they found somewhere, & some beer-fueled discussion w/lawyer friends some opaque point about law, to show off to your prof. Seldom helpful. Bro.
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Proud to be appointed by
@abapres_elect
to chair the governing council of the ABA Center on Innovation. Working with great innovator-leaders on matters of consequence to
#A2J
& to efficient & fair delivery of legal services.
@ABAInnovation
@JPMNOLA
@Andrew_Perlman
@Chase_Hertel
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So sad to see this from Dean Chemerinsky at
@BerkeleyLaw
. Kudos for his patience and courage.
UPDATE: Statement from Dean Chemerinsky:
“I am enormously sad that we have students who are so rude as to come into my home, in my backyard, and use this social occasion for their political agenda.”
Two more “dinners will go forward on Wednesday and Thursday. I hope that there
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From the scholarship work desk: I just now cut 12,000 words from what was (obviously) a very bloated article draft. It's no worse for this deep cut, but I am still somewhat sad for all that now left on cutting room floor . . . You feel me?
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Law in the Time of Corona pop-up course at
@NorthwesternLaw
goes live today. Runs for 5 weeks. Nearly 150 students signed up. Working on a publicly accessible (MOOC) version. Stay tuned. Thanks to
@ProfLWiley
& others for great help.
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Everyone who works or eats at a restaurant should remember this.
@tomcolicchio
@stirfrygrace
@chicagobars
@chefjoseandres
JUST IN: Sen. Rand Paul objects to unanimous consent request to add money to Restaurant Revitalization Fund.
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Exasperating: Tom Goldstein cites "some" as source for stupid assertion that Judge Kruger is "intellectually stronger" than Judge KBJ. Then otherwise careful
@DavidLat
retweets same quote. Incredibly careless and utterly baseless.
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My law school classmate and moot court partner (OK, so maybe she carried me), the Hon. Jennifer Granholm, new Energy Sec'y. Great pick; great leader for an important task. (And working alongside another classmate, Ron Klain). HLS '87 represents!
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Just read a FB post by David Lat! Not out of the woods, as he says firmly and twice, but much improved. So fantastic to see this note; so encouraging. Get well soon, David!!
@DavidLat
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So apparently Michigan's remote bar exam today is a debacle. Don't rinse and repeat.
@BarExamTracker
@DiplomaPriv4All
@diplomaprivileg
@molliejmcguire
@inspiredcat
@ABAesq
@PaulGowder
@atlblog
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Of allies, opponents, and enemies: a thread. As expected,
@NCBEX
will formally oppose (through a "motion to postpone")
#Resolution10G
at tomorrow's
@ABAesq
house of delegates meeting. This is in blatant disregard to the interests and passionate voices of our grads; and also in/1
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Pleased that my friend and an accomplished dean,
@HariOsofsky
, whose work I have so long admired, is our next dean at
@NorthwesternLaw
. Congrats to us. Our future is bright.
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World going to hell in a hand sack? OK, but here's the grandkid in her grilling outfit.
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Hall of shame. Eight states still firm in pressing ahead with as-scheduled in-person bar exams, putting grads at health risk: North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Iowa, Oklahoma, Idaho, North Dakota, West Virginia. (Welcome corrections).
@KorematsuCtr
@Kleee
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Not a First Amendment issue. Hey, what are they teaching at Yale Law?
@samuelharden
@ProfSchleich
@scottjshapiro
@OrinKerr
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Not sure what you will all be doing tomorrow afternoon. I will be Zooming into the
@ABAesq
House of Delegates meeting to speak proudly on behalf of
#Resolution10G
and calling out
@NCBEX
for its utter hypocrisy & craven disregard of our graduates' lives and health. Tune in!
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Here is a report from an in-person bar exam this week: "Conditions today at one building in particular were horrible. No soap in the bathrooms. 7 of 8 proctors not wearing masks. Just no enforcement of anyone wearing masks." But state bars, you keep doing what you are doing.
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The very fact that a state supreme court justice would use the phrase "half lawyers" to describe limited license legal technicians who are working to assist vulnerable citizens should leave us aghast--and also ever more urgent about the need for change.
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I miss traveling to give faculty workshops. Visiting new towns & law schools, meeting smart law profs, give-and-take, buying local swag, great dinner, stroll & a nightcap at the cool place. Miss it.
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Listening to a convo in the Stanford Law faculty lounge about the meaning of a devil's triangle. Now I can cross this off my bucket list.
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I am going on a 90% vegan diet (the 10% being a limited amount of fish/shellfish). Wish me luck. And tips welcome. Uncharted territory. Will keep you posted.
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Pleased that Cambridge U Press has offered me a contract to publish my book-in-progress, "Good Governing and Constitutional Construction: The Police Power in the American States." Busy summer!
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Having a prominent GC lawyer lecture me just now about how my offer to help law students in this difficult period was actually exclusionary because it was limited to "just" law professors tells me that I really need a break from twitter. This negative energy is a drag. Bye.
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Pleased to have been asked to join the group of affiliated faculty of CodeX at Stanford Law. Great law-tech thinkers and doers, working on real big, exciting issues.
@NLawBizTech
@CodeXStanford
@ABAInnovation
@computational
@DanLinna
@bobambrogi
@richardsusskind
@JPMNOLA
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For law students beginning this most unusual of academic years, stay strong, healthy & resolute. You have human resources in your own law school, faculty & administrators (not to mention your colleagues). You also have resources here on Twitter, from so many experienced/1
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Wise choice by Berkeley Law. Other law schools will make this choice, either very soon (best decision for affected students), later this summer (not ideal, but is what it is), or early in the fall when the trainwreck happens.
@BerkeleyLaw
@TheAALS
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OK, I'll say it:
@LeahLitman
has emerged as one of our nation's leading SCOTUS commentators. Agree or disagree, but always a "must read."
@SCOTUSblog
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Two quick reflections on the extraordinary student/grad-led movement to steer bar authorities toward more humane solutions: 1) student & young alum activism is the new normal. Legal orgs & law schools take note; 2) self-regulation is in serious jeopardy.
@lawprofblawg
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New readers: If it is not crystal clear from my tweets, I support diploma privilege for 2020 ABA grads without qualification. The alternatives, however well-meaning, are inadequate. And special shame to states in the "business as usual" group.
Hall of shame. Eight states still firm in pressing ahead with as-scheduled in-person bar exams, putting grads at health risk: North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Iowa, Oklahoma, Idaho, North Dakota, West Virginia. (Welcome corrections).
@KorematsuCtr
@Kleee
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Twitter accomplishment of the afternoon: In my profile, took out all the stuff following "law prof, Northwestern." Including "ex-dean." Because, who cares? And the rest. Replaced it with "students first."
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As we approach this Labor Day weekend, let's give it up for the incredible labor of our law students and law grads, persisting & achieving during this unspeakably difficult, stressful time. Hang in there; 2020 will pass.
#standwithstudents
#barpocalypse
#lawtwitter
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Rituals being what they are, I am having my dean portrait unveiled at a ceremony this week. Or, as I prefer to call it, my public hanging.
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Anyone out in academic law twitter land who is thinking of just giving up the rest of the semester is a coward. You need to figure out how to use Zoom? You need to develop creative engagement strategies to assist your students? Then let's talk. But let's do our jobs.
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Pleased to report that Dan Linna will be joining us next year at
@NorthwesternLaw
as a visiting professor. Bringing his skills and talents in
#legaltech
to our community.
@DanLinna
@wihender
@alysoncarrel
@NLawBizTech
@GTeninbaum
@LegalRnD
@margarethagan
@bobambrogi
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Pleased to be visiting at
@Harvard_Law
this spring. Teaching Leg-Reg to 90 eager 1Ls. Also a reading seminar on cannabis law. >100students on the wait list! (Something tells me that this is not about me).
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.
@NorthwesternLaw
Oral history interview with our esteemed alum, Justice John Paul Stevens '47. Amazing life.
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No cults for judges. No exceptions. Pass it on.
@DiegoATLAW
@espinsegall
@proffontana
@DavidLat
@CJSprigman
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Here is another reason why all law schools should get behind the
#DiplomaPrivilege
movement: Showing that you all have your grads backs will be noticed by would-be law students. And you want those students. They will vote with their feet.
@diplomaprivileg
@BarExamTracker
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Missing from Twitter X for a spell while I was frantically working to get book manuscript to publisher. Hit send today. So what did I miss while I was gone?
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Starting to wonder whether I could make more law teaching contributions by focusing on K-12 folks than law students, and am only joking by 40%.
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Remote bar exams are the hydroxychloroquine for our law grads.
@diplomaprivileg
@DiplomaPriv4All
@lawprofblawg
@PaulGowder
@BarExamTracker
#diplomaprivilege
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Diverse group of states granting
#DiplomaPrivilege
. Steadily growing list, but the clock is ticking fast. New York next? The deans there have spoken. Many others too.
@atlblog
@diplomaprivileg
#barpocalypse
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Although this will be a class formally limited to
@NorthwesternLaw
students, am working on getting the materials and recordings available for more general access. Will keep folks posted.
Got approval from
@NorthwesternLaw
to create a pop-up online course on "Law in the Time of Corona." Many interesting & important legal issues, incl Stafford Act, state-local emergency responses, employment law, force majeure, liability, drug approval, etc. Ideas?
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Is it just me or does anyone else find
@NCBEX
threat to oppose
@ABAesq
resolution 10G because it mentions
#diplomaprivilege
as an option rather hypocritical? Hey NCBE, maybe sit this one out.
@BarExamTracker
@JosephPatrice
@atlblog
@BarPresidents
@DiplomaPriv4All
@BezaresVincent
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How much do I friggin' admire my classmate and friend, Jamie Raskin? Answer: lots and lots and lots. American hero.
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For those grads who are braving this fire and taking the bar exam and signing waivers: You will have an army of skilled lawyers standing with you to get them crushed. In courts of law and in courts of public opinion. (Word to the wise,
#barpocalypse
governors).
@BPrybol
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Pleased to learn that Prof. Marcus Cole of
@StanfordLaw
and
@NorthwesternLaw
alumnus will become the next dean at
@NotreDameLaw
. Kudos and Godspeed.
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I'd like to be the fly on the wall when North Carolina bar examiners explain to press why NC in-person
#barpocalypse
makes more sense than Louisiana deciding today in favor of
#DiplomaPrivilege
.
@DiplomaPriv4All
@BPrybol
@Kleee
@KorematsuCtr
@inspiredcat
@BarExamTracker
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Some surgery, some recovery, X-mas in Chicago with family (kids & grandkid), quiet new year, then hopefully to San Diego for AALS. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger! Stressed, but blessed. Happy holidays to y'all.
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"privilege kids registered and then roasted her during the Q&A!!!!" Wow, if this is harassment, then I have dozens of emails from students when I was dean that I forgot to send along to C&F that were at least as critical!! Give me a break.
@KarenSloanNLJ
@BezaresVincent
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So it is appearing that Illinois powers-that-be are quietly kicking bar examinees under the bus once again by cancelling the ill-fated remote exam and saying "wait until February." Rationalizing it by saying that there is limited practice option. But this is chimerical, for the/1
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Pleased to share the news that Michael Kang of Emory Law, superb election scholar, will be joining the
@NorthwesternLaw
faculty beginning next fall.
@rickhasen
@RickHills2
@Richard_Primus
@HorwitzPaul
@CBHessick
@BrianLeiter
@SoCalTaxProf
@lsolum
@jadler1969
@joshchafetz
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This business of "well, there is the tiny subset of intellectually strong Black women and the rest are affirmative action riff-raff" is horrendous, even by the standards of twitter bloviating. This short list is made up of incredibly impressive Black women lawyers.
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Let's call it. Pass by blame, just do the right thing by the grads. New York, California, Illinois, and Texas.
@NCBEX
@ABAesq
@chrisjennison
@law_djm
@Kleee
@jmnookin
@StateBarCA
@fight4DPinTx
@SharonSandeen
@JoanHowarth1
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Our thoughts are with the examinees. Our thoughts are also with the bar examiners, but these are very different thoughts.
@JosephPatrice
@BarExamTracker
@DiplomaPriv4All
@molliejmcguire
@XicanaRebelde
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Very shrewd insight. Even on his self-preservationist logic, this makes no sense.
@MaxBoot
@davidfrum
@CillizzaCNN
@SamanthaJPower
Even if Trump were thinking only in terms of his own political survival, he would be tougher on Putin, because he must realize that kowtowing only strengthens suspicions of collusion. But Trump just cannot bring himself to do it. Me in
@PostOpinions
:
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With last night class, that's a wrap on 22-23 teaching. 35 years at this. And counting.
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After nearly four years on the council and 18 months as chair, it's time for me to step away from the ABA Innovation Center. I have enjoyed my time working with this incredible group, and am grateful to
@ABAesq
for putting me in this role. However, I believe that the present/1
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Got a semblance of a decent Chapter 1 & 2 draft done. So here's my reward.
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Honoring my dad, who, as part of a segregated troop of Brown & Black soldiers at end of WWII, helped liberate the Mauthausen concentration camp. He went to reunions w/survivors every year while he was able.
#neverforget
#Holocaust
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Very positive. Many will say that YLS and SLS are unique because so rich. But lots more schools could do this if so motivated. I tried to do this but the provost said no (no longer the provost). Makes good sense.
Really positive news.
@StanfordLaw
scraps tuition for low-income students, joining
@YaleLawSch
. Kudos to
@GerkenHeather
for starting the ball rolling.
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Rest of summer looms large of course before next academic year, but pleased to note that I will be splitting spring semester of '23 between two terrific law schools in the southwest,
@TAMULawSchool
and
@uarizonalaw
. Looking forward to working with students & faculty there.
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@BezaresVincent
@chrisjennison
@diplomaprivileg
@molliejmcguire
@BPrybol
@JURISTnews
The Movement turned the tide on this. Lots of Delegates felt uneasy about voting in favor (noting that Askew was not wrong in saying that ABA was previously on record against DP), but couldn't stand in the way of vocal, passionate grads. So kudos to all of you!
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Heartbroken to report the passing of my friend, Paula Littlewood. She of WA state bar leadership, contributor to so many great causes. Legal innovator & passionate access to justice warrior. So many contributions. Beloved and fierce; smart & tactical. We've lost so much.
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You should have seen the nasty notes I got privately & others sent around (and leaked to me) as they scrambled to put out this self-created dumpster fire.
@molliejmcguire
@BarExamTracker
@JosephPatrice
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213 pages is too much for me to read right now. Interferes with my holiday egg nog drinking.
COLORADO SUPREME COURT: TRUMP DISQUALIFIED FROM PRESIDENCY UNDER THE 14th AMENDMENT
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