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Legislative Process
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Law Deans on Legal Education Blog
Why a Law School Should Teach Public Policy
By Frank H. Wu
We recently hired a professor to teach public policy advocacy at our law school. This is a great example of the value of expanding the conception of what a lawyer…
Education Law Prof Blog
Senate Passes Bill to Reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Roll Back the Policies of No Child Left Behind
By Derek Black
Yesterday afternoon, by a vote of 81-17, the Senate passed a bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The bill would substantially change the state-federal relationship in education,…
Education Law Prof Blog
Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Nears Finish Line
By Derek Black
Late yesterday, the U.S. House of Representative passed a Bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This reauthorization has been a long, wild, and bumpy ride. The Act…
ImmigrationProf Blog
President Predicts Immigration Will Be Top Issue in 2016
MSNBC News reports that President Barack Obama said Monday that he expects immigration to be a major issue in the 2016 election. Speaking at a news conference after the…
Legislation Law Prof Blog
Nebraska Poised to Become 19th State to Abolish Death Penalty
By Kevin Barry
On the same day that jurors in Massachusetts returned a verdict in favor of the federal death penalty for Tsarnaev, Nebraska lawmakers voted 30-16 in favor of advancing a bill…
The Right Coast
Right’s new check on McConnell | TheHill
Thirty-seven-year-old freshman Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has become a conservative foil to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.Cotton surprised his colleagues last week by exploiting a procedural loophole that allowed him…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Bill Amending CHRO Procedures Is “Mostly” Dead
If you read the headlines this morning, you may have seen that nearly four dozen bills died at the Judiciary Committee yesterday afternoon. Indeed, no bills made it out at…
Legislation Law Prof Blog
#TBT: When ALEC First Recognized the Threat Posed by Divestment
By COWS
This post was written by Nate Ela, of COWSAmid the recent RFRA controversy in Indiana, some journalists got to asking whether the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) might’ve been behind…
Education Law Prof Blog
NCLB on Its Way to Reauthorization?
By Derek Black
Who knows what the House of Representatives will hold, but the Senate took an enormous step toward reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act yesterday. After the President made clear…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Might Utah’s gov veto the effort to provide for a firing squad execution back-up plan?
Main March 18, 2015Might Utah's gov veto the effort to provide for a firing squad execution back-up plan?The question in the title of this post is prompted by this AP…