Amanda Frost, whose work has revealed untold stories in immigration and citizenship law, will join the faculty at the University of Virginia Law School this fall. Frost is currently the Ann Loeb Bronfman Professor Emeritus of Law and Government at American University Washington College of Law. She writes and teachesRead More →
Government New Law College, Indore, Madhya Pradesh proudly announces its SECOND GNLC ALL INDIA MOOT COURT COMPETITION, 2022 from 26th to 27th March 2022. This Moot Court competition aims to give exposure to students pursuing law courses all over India in various prestigious colleges and universities. The competition aims toRead More →
Pune: 15/02/2022:- Symbiosis Law School, Pune, is organizing “Regional Consultation on Criminal Law Review – Improving Status of Women” in collaboration with National Commission for Women, New Delhi, at their invitation special in the western region. The event will take place on February 16, 2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00Read More →
It’s been six years since 12-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte gave birth to what has become Lochtegate. Representing Team USA in Rio 2016, Lochte and a few teammates claimed they were robbed at gunpoint. As their story came to light, they were subject to search warrants and banned from leavingRead More →
Judge Stephen Breyer will be remembered for speaking out against the death penalty, but when it comes to criminal law in all areas, don’t call him a liberal. Breyer’s tendency to defer to the government means he sometimes sides with the authorities in closed cases, including search and seizure, trialRead More →
Jeremy Portje, a young black photojournalist arrested – screenshot of arrest video By Rory Fleming Jeremy Portje, a young black photojournalist, was attempting to film footage in a homeless camp when police officers in Sausalito confronted him. They ended up throwing him to the ground and arresting him, while passers-byRead More →
When Breonna Taylor, 26, a black medical worker, was shot and killed by Louisville police in March 2020 in a botched raid on her apartment, the country was collectively “traumatized” – especially marginalized communities. While his death is an absolute tragedy, a University of Kentucky law professor writes that hisRead More →
To support the rule of law and help combat hate crimes and violent extremism around the world, Jones Day co-sponsored the 2021 Eradicate Hate Global Summit. Keynote speakers included President George W. Bush, former Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge and current Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The inaugural summit, heldRead More →
The 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape has seen an unprecedented public mobilization on the issue of violence against women (VAW) in India. Soon after, the Union government enacted the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013, which broadened the definition of rape and introduced mandatory minimum sentences. The subsequent incidents of rape whichRead More →
Kim Kardashian West has passed her first law exam to become a criminal lawyer. The reality star revealed she passed the ‘baby bar’ on her fourth attempt while studying a law apprenticeship. Celebrating her success on Twitter, the 41-year-old said: “Looking in the mirror, I’m so proud of the womanRead More →
Kim Kardashian West passed her first law exam to become a criminal lawyer. The reality TV star revealed that she passed the “baby bar” on her fourth attempt while studying a law apprenticeship. Celebrating her success on Twitter, the 41-year-old said: “Looking in the mirror I’m really proud of theRead More →
Hyderabad: Mahindra University Law School hosted a constitutional law webinar on the topic: 72 Years of Constitutional Democracy: Merits and Cons. On the occasion of the 72nd day of the Constitution. Judge B Chandrakumar, retired judge of the High Court of the PA and Professor (Dr) Inukonda Thirumali, renowned academician,Read More →
A group of academics who would abolish corporate criminal law in favor of administrative and private law remedies came under fire at a symposium at the Georgetown Law Center last month. Susana Bélier de Sousa The symposium, titled Imagine a world without corporate criminal law — opened with a panelRead More →
Students have the opportunity to develop their skills in this area by attending the Criminal Defense Clinic and/or receiving a Certificate in Criminal Practice. Northern Illinois University College of Law was named one of the top law schools for criminal law for the second year in a row by Pre-LawRead More →
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in his U.S. Supreme Court office in Washington, DC on June 6, 2016. (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters) For the past 30 years, Justice Thomas has taken the American people to explore constitutional law. For this we should all be grateful. This semester, we co-taught aRead More →
Baylor Law Hosts Another Successful Criminal Law Boot Camp Baylor Law’s unique Bootcamp exposes students to the legal, practical and ethical challenges facing prosecutors and defense attorneys in criminal practice in Texas Professor Richard Alpert, far left, with students and instructors of Baylor Law’s Ninth Criminal Law Boot Camp WACORead More →
(Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool / Getty Images) The fundamental problem is not a constitutional problem. The number nine does not appear in the document. We haven’t always had nine judges. And the size of the court has changed over the years for a variety of reasons. So we could doRead More →
Dr. Alexandra R. Harrington – Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Global Governance and Emerging Law and Research Director of the Center for International Sustainable Development Law – is available to speak on the continued withdrawal of U.S. and international forces from Afghanistan and the ramifications on countryRead More →
Bombay (Maharashtra) [India]June 23 (ANI/BusinessWire India): SVKM’s NMIMS, reputed to be a university, one of India’s leading educational institutions with a 40-year legacy of academic excellence, has introduced criminal law as a new majoring in his Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Kirit P. Mehta School of Law (KPMSOL) in Mumbai.Read More →
A journalist addresses the court on the third day of her trial, from inside a cage. Next to her is a colleague who is her cameraman when working in the field and who faces an equally harsh prison sentence if convicted. “I want to devote my energy exclusively to creatingRead More →
Stephen E. Sachs, a leading expert in civil procedure and constitutional law, will join the faculty of Harvard Law School as the first Antonin Scalia Professor of Law, effective July 1. Sachs, who is currently the Colin W. Brown Professor at Duke Law School, studies a range of topics, includingRead More →
A Notre Dame Law School professor is among legal experts who have condemned US President Joe Biden’s bombing of Syria on Thursday as a flagrant violation of international law. “The United Nations Charter makes it clear that the use of military force on the territory of a foreign sovereign stateRead More →
Zoe Berg, photo editor On February 18, the Yale Cyber Leadership Forum hosted a virtual discussion titled “Criminal Law Enforcement Across National Borders.” The session, open to the general public on Zoom, was the second of seven bi-weekly Thursday webinars this semester designed to bridge the gap between the legal,Read More →
In an interview Monday on Boston Public Radio, constitutional law expert Laurence Tribe said the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump would be “completely devastating for the country to watch” and predicted that a handful of Republican Trump supporters in the Senate would be “shaken” by aRead More →
KALAMAZOO, Michigan – House Democrats introduced an impeachment article Tuesday accusing President Donald Trump of “inciting insurgency.” The move follows last week’s deadly riot on the United States Capitol and alleges Trump has “endangered” the country. “What the House has done here is a real gunshot,” said Devin Schindler. “ItRead More →
DENVER (CBS4) – While many wonder if Twitter’s indefinite suspension of President Donald Trump’s account was ethically correct, social media and legal experts say Twitter legally cut the president off their platform. Some Republicans have accused the social media giant of suppressing conservative voices and ideologies in favor of promotingRead More →
Credit: Martha Stewart Christopher Lewis, a political philosopher and specialist in the criminal legal system, has been appointed assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School, effective January 1. Lewis’s research explores how law, particularly criminal law, can be administered more fairly in response to social and economic inequality inRead More →
Penny ante crimes in Colorado. A self-published book of a self-proclaimed expert. His well-paid job was working for an anti-gay hate group, then an affiliated parish school. And a corporate media ready to take a personal boosterous narrative at face value. Senior legal counsel for the Trump campaign Jenna ellisRead More →
Voting in the 2020 US election may be over, but misinformation continues to tick. Never stop checking the facts. Follow our post-election coverage here. On October 15, 2020, Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden answered questions during a town hall event broadcast on ABC News. At one point, Biden wasRead More →
Baylor Law Hosts Second Criminal Law Boot Camp of 2020 Adjunct Professor Richard Alpert addresses students during the October Criminal Law Boot Camp at Baylor Law WACO- The second Criminal Law Boot Camp of 2020 offered an intense introduction to the criminal practice of the State of Texas taught byRead More →
An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Decisions Everyone Should Know came out a year ago. Randy and I threw the book at Georgetown University Law Center on Constitution Day, rightly so. We are proud to report that we have sold 16,779 paperback copies, including 10,431 on Amazon. WeRead More →
By Dakota S. Rudesill Teach what you know. This wisdom came to mind when schools closed due to the global coronavirus pandemic in mid-March, and I suddenly had a new job: homeschooling in second grade. At that time, we did not have distance learning materials from the school district. MyRead More →
June 29, 2020 Every class teaches an important lesson, but one particular class at Cornell College challenged students on a whole new level. Meghan Yamanishi’s Block 7 class, Constitutional Law: The American System, undertook a block simulation of three pending Supreme Court cases, including Department of Homeland Security v. RegentsRead More →
Georgia State Ashe Family Chair Law professor Eric J. Segall was first drawn to constitutional law during his time at the US Department of Justice. He worked for the Federal Programs branch of the Civil Division, representing federal agencies in litigation. He had several constitutional law cases that were incrediblyRead More →
Growing up, Georgia State law professor Russell D. Covey never imagined himself becoming a lawyer. The idea only came to him while attending graduate school in political philosophy at Princeton University. Political philosophy can get quite esoteric, and Covey was looking for a career that would be filled with hands-on,Read More →
In September, Randy Barnett and I published An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Decisions Everyone Should Know. Since its release, 100 boxes was the best-selling book on Amazon for constitutional law, and our publisher must continue to print more copies to keep up with demand. We are alsoRead More →
Randy Barnett and I are proud to announce An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Decisions Everyone Should Know. All students, even those unfamiliar with American history, will learn the basic information essential to understanding how this body of law came to be what it is today. Our onlineRead More →
Benjamin Eidelson, an expert in constitutional law and legal theory, joined the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor, effective July 1. Trained in both law and philosophy, Eidelson specializes in issues at the intersection of the two disciplines. Her work explores the interplay of legal doctrines and moralRead More →
Photo courtesy of Laura Weinrib Laura Weinrib ’03, a leading scholar of legal history and constitutional law, will join Harvard Law School’s Faculty of Law as a professor of law, effective July 1, 2019. She is returning to her alma mater of University of Chicago Law School, where she isRead More →
By Jorge Casuso April 16, 2019 – Kenneth Karst, an influential constitutional law scholar at UCLA who lived in Santa Monica for nearly 50 years, died last Tuesday. He was 89 years old. Karst had a profound effect on the formation of UCLA Law School after joining its faculty inRead More →
Kenneth Karst, an influential constitutional law scholar, teacher, and longtime faculty member who had a profound effect on the formation of UCLA Law School, died April 9. He was 89 years old. A prolific and celebrated author in a wide range of fields, Karst was also a favorite of students,Read More →
The practical importance of constitutional law is evident in media coverage of burning issues such as health care, gun control, ballot access, abortion, and same-sex marriage, all recent (and possibly future) of deliberation and binding decision by the United States Supreme Court. In the introduction to their new book, UnitedRead More →
Robert A. Sedler is a distinguished professor at Wayne State University Law School, where he teaches courses in constitutional law and conflict of laws. “Treason is the only crime specifically defined in the Constitution. It is a heinous crime, the worst crime that can be committed by an American citizen.Read More →
Geoffrey Stone is an authority on civil rights, constitutional law, and the First Amendment. He has written numerous articles on freedom of expression and is the author of numerous books on constitutional law, including Social media, freedom of expression and the future of our democracy(to be released 2022); Leaks, NationalRead More →
With much of the United States divided on various political and social issues, prospective law students may be excited about the idea of defending Americans’ rights and freedoms through the practice of constitutional law. But law professors and practicing lawyers say legal jobs focused exclusively on constitutional law are extremelyRead More →
UPDATE: Friday, June 2 at 12:19 a.m. John F. Manning ’82, a constitutional law scholar and longtime law school professor, will be the next dean of Harvard Law School, university president Drew G. Faust announced Thursday. Manning will assume the deanship on July 1, succeeding current dean Martha L. Minow.Read More →
It can be difficult to find the courage to make an objection in court or to cross-examine a witness on a first attempt. So, if you’re considering pursuing a career in criminal law, experts recommend getting as much trial experience as possible while in law school. Yosha Gunasekera, a UniversityRead More →
The radar ticket: like a parking ticket, it looks fairly legal. When they receive one, most people just write the check. It seems like the sane, law-abiding thing to do. But this is not a parking ticket. From a legal point of view, this is not a procedure in rem–Read More →
CHAMPAIGN, Illinois — Vikram Amar, senior associate dean for academic affairs and professor of law at the University of California at Davis School of Law, has been named dean of the University of Illinois College of Lawpending U board approval. of I. at its July 23 meeting in Chicago. Amar,Read More →
Who knew George Lucas and constitutional law had so much in common? Obviously Cass R. Sunstein did. The Harvard Law School constitutional scholar and former administrator of President Obama’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs makes such an argument in his upcoming Michigan Law Review article titled How Star WarsRead More →