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Legal Theory Blog
Wieboldt on American Providentialism
Dennis J. Wieboldt III (University of Notre Dame) has posted American Providentialism: A Reappraisal (40 Notre Dame J. L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y __ (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Peter Margulies, Studying Noncitizens: Immigration, the University, and the First Amendment
Peter Margulies, Studying Noncitizens: Immigration, the University, and the First AmendmentAbstractFrom its campaign against anti-war protesters in World War I to the present, the government has tried to restrict the pure…
Simple Justice
Harvard’s First Amendment Rights Violated
It’s not that Harvard University didn’t have a significant and deeply troubling antisemitism problem. It did. It still does. And that’s really bad. But that does not, as Judge Allison…
PrawfsBlawg
Harvard wins and district judge pushes back
Main Wednesday, September 03, 2025Harvard wins and district judge pushes backThe District of Massachusetts granted Harvard and its AAUP Chapter summary judgment on several claims, ruling that the cancellation of…
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Teeing up Sullivan
Main Wednesday, September 03, 2025Teeing up SullivanThe Eleventh Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment for CNN in Alan Dershowitz's defamation action over how CNN reported on his defense of…
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Fishkin on UCLA
Main Wednesday, September 03, 2025Fishkin on UCLAJoey Fishkin has a lengthy Balkinization post about the protests at UCLA and the way the story of the "Jew Exclusion Zone"--the basis for…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Stanford Daily Sues Secretary of State Marco Rubio and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Over Targeted Deportations
The Intercept reports that the Stanford Daily has filed suit claiming that the First Amendment protects journalists from the laws used against Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk. Read More "The…
Religion Clause
LA Sued Over Its handling of Permit Application for Christian Revival Event
Suit was filed last week in a California federal district court by leaders of May Day USA, a nationwide Christian revival event, contending that the manner in which Los Angeles…
PrawfsBlawg
Flag burning, again?
Main Tuesday, August 26, 2025Flag burning, again?I am late to talking about the new E.O. prioritizing prosecution of flag burning. It purports to get around Johnson and Eichman by pursuing…
PrawfsBlawg
The Ten Commandments and a “Secular Purpose”
Main Thursday, August 21, 2025The Ten Commandments and a "Secular Purpose"I have a short piece up at SCOTUSblog on the status of the "Lemon Test" and the recent enactments in…