A frivolous lawsuit in KY shows how the ABA has turned law schools into leftist indoctrination centers through silly accreditation rules Thanks to Steve Bannon’s War Room (here), Ace of Spades HQ (here), and the Tennessee Star (here)! Even though Tennessee and Kentucky share a long border, …
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The Preventive State
Responding to periodic exigencies confronting the nation defies reduction to a unitary “jurisprudential framework,” but good faith and common sense usually suffice. This essay originally appeared in Law & Liberty on July 22, 2025 (here). For nearly 60 years, Alan Dershowitz has enjoyed a …
How Did America’s Law Schools Become Lawless?
Ilya Shapiro did not “discover” the problem of wokeness in legal academia, which has been festering for years, but in 2022 the problem discovered him. His eye-opening account is a clarion call for reform. This essay first appeared in Law & Liberty on February 18, 2025 (here). Thanks…
The ABA Retreats from Its Diversity Mandates—or Does It?
“Holistic” admissions, which eschew reliance on objective metrics such as grades and test scores, focusing instead on a subjective evaluation of an applicant’s potential based on his individual experiences, are an obvious artifice for granting racial preferences without leaving incriminatin…
The ABA’s Free Speech Intervention
Legal academia finds itself peering into the abyss of leftist orthodoxy, in which dissent is forbidden. Ironically, the liberal American Bar Association may save once-respected law schools from themselves. A slightly-edited version of this essay was originally published by The James G. Mar…
The Woke Catechism of Legal Academia
To the consternation of the left, which now dominates legal education, originalism is alive and well—ascendant, in fact. In response, liberals whine and double-down in their overheated denunciations of constitutionalism. This essay originally appeared in Law & Liberty on September 19, 2022 …
The ABA’s Long March Continues
State supreme courts seem content to allow a leftist cartel to impose ideological conformity on America’s law schools. This essay first appeared in Law & Liberty on August 24, 2021 (here). Thanks to Power Line, Instapundit (here), SE Texas Record (here), Real Clear Policy, and TaxProf B…
The Federalist Society Is Under Attack (Again)
A slightly different version of this essay first appeared in Law & Liberty on January 29, 2020 (here). Thanks to How Appealing, Legal Insurrection (here), and Real Clear Policy (here). As has been widely reported, a recently-released draft advisory opinion of the Committee on Codes of Conduct…
An Original Case for Originalism
An originalist turns the tables on natural law theorists A slightly revised version of this essay first appeared in Law & Liberty on December 17, 2019 (here), as “Originalism as a Model of Political Communication.” Thanks to How Appealing, Real Clear Policy (here), Real Clear Book…
The Nonsense Factory
The Silicon Valley nouveau riche are different from the rest of us; they are more grandiose An abridged version of this essay originally appeared in Law & Liberty on July 29, 2019 as Lost in Nonsense (here). Thank you, Power Line! And Overlawyered.com (here) Silicon Valley venture capitalist …