(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Alito Still Keeping Up The Impartial Act: Why stop blaming the wife if it keeps working? Prepare For The TikTok Showdown!: The major free speech case is on the fast track. Adios, Jenna Ellis!: Have fun with that suspension. So, What Are You Doing After This?: Lawyers share advice on…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Union members at the University of California’s Los Angeles and Davis campuses went on strike Tuesday over the system’s handling of pro-Palestinian protests and counterprotesters. UCLA and UC Davis union members are joining fellow UAW…
Before 2011, Amy Chua would have described herself as a “mild mannered professor.” She was teaching law at Yale University and raising her two daughters. “Nobody knew who I was, I had never been on major TV — I didn’t even have a Facebook,” says Chua. “And suddenly, overnight, there were headlines: ‘Most Hated Mother…
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The government cannot jail journalists for asking a question. But local officials in Laredo, Texas, did just that, arresting citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal for exercising her core First Amendment right to ask government officials for information as part of her local news reporting. The officials relied on a criminal statute, never enforced locally in the law’s…
Tim Eckenfels, head of IH Sydney Training Services, spoke with The PIE at the IH Directors conference, and said the fact the draft framework is being directed more at public universities is about the “most foolish thing the government can do” from its own cost perspective. “It’s been all the middle tier and lower tier…
SCOTUS NEWS By Amy Howe on May 29, 2024 at 4:42 pm Justice Samuel Alito, his wife Martha-Ann behind him, during his confirmation hearings before the Senate. (Rob Crandall via Shutterstock) Two weeks after the New York Times first reported that an upside-down American flag – popular among the “Stop the Steal” movement – flew…
Emilie Townes comes to Boston University from Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School, where she was dean emerita and the Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society. She previously taught at Yale University and Union Theological Seminary.Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt Divinity SchoolDr. Emilie Townes has been named the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Religion and…
When someone is involved in a government investigation or a lawsuit, a decision is made based on the available evidence. But sometimes, a person’s public reputation can sway the fact finder’s decision. Let’s take a look at two case studies in professional baseball where reputation and public perception may have helped or hurt them at…
Everyone sees problems in the world, but true visionaries have the drive and the passion to engage everyone around them to help solve them. Perhaps you are one of those people who have a unique solution to solving a problem or filling a need and the drive and ambition to accomplish it. If the problem…