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Monthly Archives: June 2011
From the AALS Workshop for New Law Teachers
am sitting at a table along with some of the legal publishers at the AALS Workshop for New Law Teachers and the excitement in seeing candidates whom I’ve met at the SALT-LatCrit junior faculty development workshops, the People of Color programs, and the recent SALT “Breaking In” programs walk into the Mayflower Hotel as new law teachers is fantastic! Continue reading
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Illinois Dept. of Revenue Proves Civil Unions are Not Equal
By Anthony Niedwiecki, The John Marshall Law School In the push for marriage equality, LGBT activists often point to hospital visitation, inheritance rights, and tax benefits as some of the rights that are denied to same-sex couples. In response, some … Continue reading
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Implications of Today’s U.S. Supreme Court Decision in AEP v. Connecticut for Climate Change Regulation
In an 8-0 decision authored by Justice Ginsburg (with Justice Sotomayor recusing herself), the U.S. Supreme Court held that “the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide … Continue reading
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Under-educated State Legislatures? (Part I): Do They Explain Funding Cuts to Higher Education?
By Lisa R. Pruitt The Chronicle of Higher Education this week released data summarizing the tertiary education (or lack thereof) of state legislators across the country. An interactive map is available here, permitting you to see the percentage of lawmakers … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice
Tagged education, poverty, privilege, socioeconomic class, state government
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High Court Opinions in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Soliciting Sympathy or Antipathy?
Written by SpearIt Last month in Brown v. Plata, the Supreme Court held that prison overcrowding in California caused conditions that violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Capping a legal saga that has entered its third … Continue reading
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Downsides to Class Privilege? Hardly a Trend
By Lisa R. Pruitt Two recent news reports from very different parts of the world shared this theme: Affluence can have its drawbacks. The first story was Michael Wines, “Execution in a Killing that Fanned Class Rancor,” which reports the … Continue reading
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Tagged Asia, class war, politics, poverty, privilege, race, socioeconomic class
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Teachers as Students — How to Make it Work
By Olympia Duhart There is a popular adage about teachers that I think of almost every single time I attend a teaching conference or workshop: “Teachers make terrible students.” And, often, my attendance at conferences aimed at improving legal education … Continue reading
SALT mourns the passing of Harriette Dorsen
Harriette Dorsen, beloved wife of SALT founder Norman Dorsen, died on June 5, 2011, at home in Cornwall, Connecticut, with her family at her side. Harriette and Norman married in 1965. Following her graduation from NYU Law School in 1966, … Continue reading
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What about an Immig-Corps?
Written by Stacy Caplow, Brooklyn Law School We need a structured program for recent law graduates to provide legal services to poor, unrepresented immigrants while developing skills and knowledge to improve the level of competency of the immigration bar for … Continue reading
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Courting Justice—Who Teaches Judges?
Written by Hazel Weiser As the U.S. Supreme Court winds down its term with several more controversial split decisions yet to come, we are reminded once again of how important an independent judiciary is to the maintenance of a democracy. … Continue reading
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