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Gillian Hadfield , a USC law professor visiting at Harvard, has a provocative piece today in the Washignton Post. The piece takes aim at the legal industry’s guild system. (HT: ABA Journal ) Her starting point is that too many Americans can’t afford to vindicate their legal rights. Surveys, she writes, show that 30 to 40% of Americans with legal... 

“Prop. 8 ruling based on ‘overwhelming evidence’”: Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle. Today in The Washington Post, Robert Barnes and Sandhya Somashekhar have an article headlined ” Judge strikes California’s ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8 .” And in Friday’s edition... 

(Jonathan H. Adler) [NOTE: READ UPDATES BELOW] Today’s Washington Post features a story by Michael Birnbaum on the controversial new Texas social studies standards .  As characterized by the Post , the standards sound quite bad.  Ann Althouse was concerned by the story, so she looked at the Texas materials (for which the Post had declined to provide... 

Just as  Radley Balko  has done an exemplary job of chronicling puppycide, the needless knee-jerk killing of dogs by police officers, George Washington Lawprof  Jonathon Turley  has done the same for police informing people, and often backing up their advice with a big stick, that it’s illegal to video and record them. Turley had two posts... 

The long arm of the law should not extend to the middle finger. — Ira P. Robbins , criminal law professor at American University – Washington College of Law American University – United States – Washington College of Law – Washington DC – Law  Read More →

When it comes to law school , “Hope springs eternal.” According to a National Law Journal article entitled Hope Drives Rise in Law School Applications , for this year’s incoming class, law school applications increased by 7% and the number of applicants by 3% — despite tough times in the legal profession and the heavy educational... 

“An elegant defense of Kagan from an unlikely source”: Eva Rodriguez has this entry at the “PostPartisan” blog of The Washington Post. Miguel A. Estrada ’s letter urging the confirmation of Elena Kagan can be accessed here .  Read More →

On Monday, we wrote about a shooting in Philadelphia involving a law student, as the accused shooter, and the son of a law firm partner, as the apparents victim. We now have some updates on the situation. Alas, we still have more questions than answers. Gerald Ung (pictured), 28, is in his final year at Temple University’s Beasley School of... 

A tattoo artist who wanted to open a parlor in a southern California town recently sued the city, alleging an infringement of his first-amendment rights.  Read More →

(Eugene Volokh) I’ve often seen this supposed quote from George Washington, including in books of quotes: Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. But I wanted to note that it’s not at all clear that Washington... 

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