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 by David Udell A working group appointed by the NJ Supreme Court released on May 16, 2013 a report and recommendations dated April 30,2013 in which it urges adoption of a 50 hour law-related pro bono service requirement as a condition of admission to the NJ…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

 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…

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…

Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law The news today (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-selects-new-head-of-clandestine-service-passing-over-female-officer-tied-to-interrogation-program/2013/05/07/c43e5f94-b727-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html) is about the interim head of the clandestine service – a woman with “ties” to the torture – being passed over for the job in favor of a man.  I…

By Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law Thanks to a May 4, 2013 Glenn Greenwald piece (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi-boston) my attention has been drawn to Stellar Wind.  Stellar Wind is a much more evocative phrase for me than warrantless wiretapping – it…

 By Sahar Aziz Now that the Boston Marathon bombing suspects have been killed or captured, wild speculation is spreading about the link between their motives, their Chechen identity and their Muslim faith. All the while, the memories of the victims are eclipsed…

By Sahar Aziz Like millions of Americans across the nation, my heart dropped at the news of the bombings in Boston. As a mother, I was devastated for those who lost their children. As a spouse, I mourned for those who lost their life partner. And as…

 Written by SpearIt Recent killings in Texas and Colorado are the suspected work of white supremacists, and may involve gang leaders in prison. The murders began in January with the slaying of a Texas assistant district attorney, followed by the director of Colorado prisons,…

By Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law Further to my Zero Dark Thirty posts, came across dear old John Yoo (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/john-yoo-criticizes-liberals-for-caring-more-about-torture-than-diversity/274608/) doing a diversity tap dance in favor of the torture woman being examined to head the CIA Directorate of…

By Larry Levine  This isn’t “blogging,” is it?  I’ve never blogged.  Nor do I think I have I ever written the word “blogged’ before.  But because I had the good fortune to attend oral arguments in the Prop 8 case and the DOMA cases on Tuesday and Wednesday, I…

by Jackie Gardina Last week Michelle Shocked sat outside the venue of a cancelled show in Santa Cruz, Calif., wearing duct tape across her mouth, with the phrase “Silenced By Fear” on it, and a sign next to her that asked, “Does speech scare you…

Written by: Susannah Pollvogt, Catherine Smith, Tanya Washington Later this month, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument in United States v. Windsor, better known as the challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act.  SALT members Catherine Smith and Susannah Pollvogt (both of the University…

 by SpearIt If there’s a terrorist attack, you can bet that you’ll hear about it, whether from a newsfeed, internet, television or radio program, or a newspaper.  And if a Muslim is behind it, then media coverage will certainly delve deeper into the perpetrator’s religious identity…

By Jackie Gardina In 1971, when I was just old enough to “read” the paper (or the captions under the pictures, anyway), I ran across a photo in the back pages of my home newspaper, the Quad City Times, of two men trying to marry.

by SpearIt Islam is described as the fastest growing religion in the U.S. There are various factors that contribute to this phenomenon, including immigrants arriving in recent decades from Muslim countries, including India, Pakistan, and in the Middle East. In addition, many individuals convert to…