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HUGE congratulations to beloved law professor, mother, mentor, and SALT board member Emily Benfer, professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Click here for the full announcement.  The award will be presented at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Thursday, February 27th.

By Marjorie Cohn (Thomas Jefferson School of Law) Edward Snowden, who worked for the National Security Agency (NSA), revealed a secret order of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), that requires Verizon to produce on an “ongoing daily basis … all call detail records or ‘telephony metadata’ created…

By Mitchell Silverman An antihero, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is “One who is the opposite or reverse of a hero; esp. a chief character in a poem, play, or story who is totally unlike a conventional hero.” Since 2003, legal restrictions on gay rights have been falling like…

Long-time SALT member Margaret Montoya, Emeritus Professor at University of New Mexico and Senior Advisor to Executive Vice President for UNM Health Sciences Center speaks to the professionals gathered in concurrent programming, discussing the legal market, law schools, and the need for public interest attorneys and the students who can…

Reporting in directly from the University of Puerto Rico, Escuela de Derecho, we are currently joining NEPOC and hosting a panel with Judge Jenny Rivera, Roberto Colon from the Hispanic National Bar Association, Rafael Cancel from the Nat’l Association of Environmental Law, Charles Hey-Maestre from Puerto Rico Legal Services, William…

The Institute for Social Policy & Understanding recently recognized SpearIt (second from left) for the 2013 Report referenced by the Islamic Monthly (below). ARTICLE: The Waning Pulse of Islamic Radicalization in America If there’s a terrorist attack, you can bet that you’ll hear about it, whether from…

By Marjorie Cohn Last weekend, I participated in a panel on the illegality of drones and targeted killing off the battlefield at the conference, “Drones Around the Globe: Proliferation and Resistance,” in Washington DC. Nearly 400 people from many countries came together to gather information, protest, and develop strategies to…

Today the NYC Bar Association issued its report on the changing times for the legal profession along with recommendations for easing new lawyers into practice, especially serving the moderate income client.  This is an important document, especially in light of the controversy within the ABA Council on Legal Education, so…

 By SpearIt With election day around the corner, millions of Americans will be out voting; there will be races for governor, mayor, initiatives, and a variety of public offices. Many, however, will be denied this opportunity due to their criminal record. Increasingly, this is the case for Muslim-Americans.

By Marc Poirier, Seton Hall University School of Law Same-sex marriage became legal in New Jersey at 12:01 am on Monday, October 21. Wedding ceremonies are everywhere. The process may not be over, however; there are tactical decisions yet to be made as to how best to solidify and clarify…

A post from the program under way today by Professor Michael Olivas here in Houston, Texas. SALT President-Elect Olympia Duhart introduced this morning with Professor Olivas followed by the State of the Profession and Pipeline Programs with Professor Olivas and Kent Lollis from LSAC. We moved through panels on Post…

Great article involving SALT member Professor Franklin Siegel. City Lawyers: Trust Us, NYPD Surveillance Is Keeping You Alive   “If there are threats or leads to follow, then the NYPD’s job is to do it,” Mayor Bloomberg said. “The law is pretty clear about what’s the requirement, and…

CLICK HERE FOR FULL SURVEY:  SALT salary survey 2013 SALT periodically publishes a salary survey of the legal academy, above, with the generous assistance of Dean Eric Janus at William Mitchell College of Law and the tireless Editor and long-time SALT member, Professor Raleigh Levine. It is…

http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1570&context=pubs Tuesday, May 7, 2013 Future of the legal profession Many books and articles in the last few years describe a ”profession in crisis” with no shortage of demons to blame: many equity partners in large law firms pursuing ever increasing profits, tenured law professors sitting on big salaries with no incentive to change…

What Is the Progressive Response to Law School Costs? SALT CoPresidents Jackie Gardina & Ngai Pindell Brian Tamanaha’s recent article, The Failure of Crits and Leftist Law Professors to Defend Progressive Causes (24 STAN. L. & POL’Y), raises important concerns about the current cost of legal education and student debt.

By Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law (with great appreciation for a dialogue with Sheila Willamowski, 3L, University of Toledo College of Law) Kidnapped off the street, hustled into a vehicle, disappeared into a structure, tortured, sexually assaulted, beaten, degraded, shackled, and so…

By Dawinder “Dave” S. Sidhu, Assistant Professor of Law, University of New Mexico At the heart of President Obama’s domestic agenda lies the middle-class.  President Obama, for example, identified “our top priority as a nation” to be “reigniting” “a rising, thriving middle class.”  Memorializing this emphasis on the middle-class, official…

By Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law Benghazi hearings of foreign service officers yesterday.  As a foreign service brat, when the tragedy happened, I was certain there was a screw up at Main State as well as in Tripoli rather than some nefarious conspiracy.

By Marjorie Cohn More than 100 of the 166 detainees at Guantanamo are starving themselves to death. Twenty-three of them are being force-fed. “They strap you to a chair, tie up your wrists, your legs, your forehead and tightly around the waist,” Fayiz Al-Kandari told his lawyer, Lt. Col. Barry…

ClassCrits VI is set for November 15-16, 2013 in Los Angeles. The theme is Stuck in Forward: Debt, Austerity and the Possibilities of the Political. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Akhil Gupta of UCLA. You can find more details here and here. Please submit your abstract or proposal to classcrits@gmail.com by May…