As at most law schools, the faculty at University of Toledo leans strongly to the left. Nevertheless, in an admirable display of ideological ecumenicism, the law school faculty overwhelmingly nominated their conservative colleague, Lee Strang for the university’s second annual Inclusive Excellence Award, and the university announced that he would receive the award this year. […]
Washington Post book critic Ron Charles writes, “I suspect some major publishers still don’t understand what having a diverse workforce entails. It was never just about making your office look like a Benetton ad. The real goal behind a diverse workforce is a wide range of experiences and ideas — and people empowered to act […]
Justice Sonia Sotomayor is the first Puerto Rican Justice to serve on the Supreme Court, the first Latino. She is often also described as the first Hispanic Justice. Some, however, have maintained that Benjamin Cardozo, as a Sephardic Jew, was the first Hispanic Justice. Federal and state law typically defines “Hispanic” as being of “Spanish […]
Tim Sandefur, who has done great work on the issue, analyzes the Fifth Circuit’s long, divided opinion on the Indian Child Welfare Act. As regular readers know, I have spent the last couple of years researching the modern American law of racial classification. (Did I mention that in addition to my soon-to-be-published law review article, […]
As I continue to work on my forthcoming book on racial classification law in modern America, I often notice tangential but fascinating issues. Here’s one. Consider an American who grows up with two white parents, “looks” white, always considers himself white, and assumed all his ancestors were European. He gets into genealogy and in the […]
Cornel West, a celebrity African-American academic, asked Harvard, where he had once been tenured before decamping to Princeton, to offer him a tenured position. Harvard declined, and instead offered the 67-year-old West a ten-year contract. This may be an example of (rational but illegal) age discrimination, as Harvard may not want to tenure someone whose […]
From the New York Times obituary for Walter Bernstein (no relation), a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter, has this to say about his ties to the Communist Party, USA: “I didn’t join the party until after the war,” Mr. Bernstein said, although the events of the ’30s, including the Depression, the Spanish Civil War and the rise […]
(1) Criminal justice/police reform managed to make it high on the public agenda because the huge nationwide reduction in violent crime over the last thirty years, which made people more receptive to arguments about excessive police force, exc Read More Article from Latest – Reason.com David Bernstein