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The Hidden Life of Law School Adjuncts: Teaching Temps, Indispensable Instructors, Underappreciated Cash Cows, or Something Else?

That's the title of a new piece that Markus Funk,* Andrew S. Boutros,** and I*** have forthcoming in the Texas Law Review Online Edition. You can read it in PDF, or below; we still have plenty of time to edit it, so we'd love to see any corrections or suggestions.…

Reason · Jun 5, 2023

Graduation Speeches, "Hate Speech," and the CUNY Law Controversy

There's been a good deal of comment about the City University of New York law school student graduation speaker (Fatima Mousa Mohammed) who devoted a good deal of her speech to harshly condemning Israel and "Zionism," as well as capitalism, the New York government, and America more generally. (I include…

Reason · Jun 2, 2023

Ex-San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin Appointed Director of Berkeley Law's new Criminal Law & Justice Center

Chesa Boudin graduated Yale Law School in 2011. After two judicial clerkships bracketing a year as a post-doc fellow (!!??) at the San Francisco DA's office and several years practicing criminal law as a public defender, he ran successfully for San Francisco DA as a left-wing anti-racist reformist candidate. His…

Reason · Jun 1, 2023

NYC Mayor Eric Adams And I Now Share Something In Common

We were both protested by CUNY Law students.

Reason · May 13, 2023

New Column in ABA Journal: "Law schools face an inflection point with diversity, equity and inclusion"

"Universities and faculties in particular should take decisive action to prevent future Steinbachs and Eldiks from subverting the core principles of academic inquiry."

Reason · May 1, 2023

The New York Times Uncovered The Worst-Kept Secret In Academia

Summer study-abroad programs are cushy vacations for students and boondoggles to attract elite faculty.

Reason · Apr 30, 2023

Commentary: As elite law schools stifle free speech, University of Chicago shines as an exception

The bedrock principle of free speech is under siege at some of our nation’s leading law schools as U.S. News & World Report unveils its latest law school rankings. Leaders of the very places where constitutional law is taught, where reasoned debate over contentious issues is supposed to be encouraged,…

Chicago Tribune · Apr 20, 2023

Editorial: At Stanford, a teachable moment on civil discourse is squandered

The ongoing controversy at Stanford University Law School over the student shout-down of a conservative speaker underscores precisely how progressive cancel culture is helping feed exaggerated Republican narratives about progressivism run amok. Republicans are just as guilty of silencing opposing views, as was immediately evident last week in the Tennessee…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Apr 15, 2023

UNC students protest decision to ban 'Cop City' activist

Students at North Carolina’s flagship public university have walked out of class to protest school officials’ decision to ban a law school student from campus

The Independent UK · Apr 13, 2023

Law School Free Speech, Wokeness, and "The Etiquette of Equality"

A different take.

Reason · Apr 10, 2023