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Category Archives: Law
NYT: The Trump Administration Floats a New Way to Humiliate the Legal Profession
Deborah Pearlstein, the director of the Princeton program in law and public policy, writes in the New York Times about her love of truth: The state bar disciplinary system is far from perfect. Proceedings can drag on for years. Some … Continue reading
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NYT: An Assertive Supreme Court Turns to Curbing State Courts
Ann E. Marimow reports for the New York Times: Since President Trump returned to the White House, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has shown a willingness to short-circuit lower-court proceedings with a slew of emergency rulings in federal cases. But … Continue reading
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A Small Group Of People Decide What Knowledge Is
So how do you join that conversation? For example, if I were to turn this blog post into something legal elites read, what phrases, ideas and individuals do I need to cite? I accept that what counts as knowledge is … Continue reading
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Stewards Of Democracy: Law As Public Profession (1999)
Law professor Paul D. Carrington wrote: * American law in the last half-century has been increasingly disdainful of the expressed wishes and expectations of the citizens it purports to serve. * Robert Wiebe, for example, has identified World War II … Continue reading
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The Leading White Shoe Law Firms In LA
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher stands as the quintessential Los Angeles white shoe firm. John Bicknell founded it in 1890, and it remains one of the most prestigious firms in the country. It maintains a massive presence in downtown Los Angeles … Continue reading
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How Much Do We Value The Human Touch?
I like AI. I use it every day. I want America to lead the world in AI. This tech is essential for our economic and military dominance. I have a bias here. I prefer happy perspectives to unhappy ones. I … Continue reading
Decoding The Harvard Law Review
Status in the legal academy relies on an alliance structure where students, professors, and elite law firms exchange prestige to maintain a closed circuit of authority. The Harvard Law Review serves as the primary node in this network. Under an … Continue reading
NYT: Paul Weiss Partners Turned on Brad Karp After Learning Extent of His Epstein Ties
The New York Times reports: Mr. Karp’s problems began months ago when embarrassing revelations about his dealings with Mr. Epstein began to dribble out of the Justice Department’s files. Over the past week, the firm had informally surveyed clients about … Continue reading
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Decoding Medicine’s Embrace Of Trans Mutilations
X notes: “A New York jury found psychologist Dr. Kenneth Einhorn and surgeon Dr. Simon H. Chin liable for failing to properly evaluate Varian’s mental health issues like depression, anorexia, ADHD, and possible body dysmorphia before approving the procedure. Varian’s … Continue reading
How Do You Survive A Racist Text Published In The New Yorker?
The more prestigious your position, the more vulnerable you are to cancelation. David Lat writes: Back in September, after the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, a reader asked me whether I knew what Crystal Clanton was up to nowadays. … Continue reading
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