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Advice to Entering Law Students—2023
Some ideas that might help you make better use of the opportunities available to you in law school.
Texas A&M's Treatment of Journalism Director Raises Academic Freedom Concerns
Political appointees should have no role in faculty hiring decisions.
Vernon Smith: Adam Smith's Relevance, Jimmy Carter's Deregulation, and the Fed's Biggest Mistake
"The greatest thing that ever happened to me was to be born in a free country of modest means and to have opportunities," says the Nobel Prize–winning economist.
Proposals for Improving Dialogue and Reducing Ideological Polarization in the Legal World
Legal scholar and blogger Eric Segall puts forward several excellent suggestions.
Cornell's President Defends Free Speech Against Illiberal Impulses
Martha Pollack rejects the pernicious premise that universities should protect students from offensive ideas.
Stanford Dean's Letter and Limited-Purpose Institutions
A defense of institutional neutrality.
This Just In: Conspiracy Theorists Not Quite as Kooky as Previously Reported
Greetings from the second International Conspiracy Theory Symposium, where one of the most cited findings in the field has been debunked.
Christopher Rufo Wants To Shut Down 'Activist' Academic Departments. Here's Why He's Wrong.
"Professors are not mouthpieces for the government," says FIRE's Joe Cohn. "For decades, the Supreme Court of the United States has defended professors' academic freedom from governmental intrusion."
A Florida Bill To Censor Professors Just Got Even Worse
The bill now bans a battery of poorly-defined "Critical Theory" concepts, and prevents schools from funding programs that promote "diversity, equity, and inclusion."
Where Did All the English Majors Go?
A NewYorker essay on why no one studies English anymore.
The Place Where Property Law Happens in New York City
By an amazing coincidence, a current property dispute is occurring at the site of a storied property law case.
Ron DeSantis Wants To Cultivate 'Viewpoint Diversity' by Censoring Universities
Florida's H.B. 999 claims to support "viewpoint diversity" and "intellectual rigor." It does just the opposite.
DEI Inc. v. Academic Freedom
Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder argue that we should not kid ourselves about the threat university DEI bureaucracies pose to academic freedom, but is there a better way?
Instant Karma's Gonna Get You
Should conservatives worry about breaking the norm of political non-interference with state universities?
The Latest DeSantis Higher Ed Reform Proposals
The Florida governor unveiled some big new ideas -- not all of them good
She Lost Her Job For Showing a Painting of Muhammad in Class. Now, She's Suing.
"Hamline subjected López Prater to the foregoing adverse actions because . . . she did not conform her conduct to the specific beliefs of a Muslim sect," the lawsuit states.
The New Yorker Profiles "The Conservative Who Wants to Bring Down the Supreme Court."
Jonathan Mitchell failed in his effort to become a legal academic, so he put his theories into practice instead.
The New Year Brings a New Formula for US News Law School Rankings
U.S. News and World Report is making some significant changes to the way it ranks law schools.
Be Thankful for Low-Skilled Workers
These are the people who showed up when the economy was shut down by the government, working in jobs labeled "essential."
Andrew Doyle: How the 'New Puritans' Created a 'Frenzy of Conformity'
The journalist and comedian makes the case that "new puritans" espousing the religion of social justice have captured the Western world.
How Woke Mobs Ruined Everything and What To Do About It
Andrew Doyle on the "new puritans" and their godawful religion of social justice.
Mandated Diversity Statement Drives Jonathan Haidt To Quit Academic Society
Prominent social psychologist and NYU professor calls the requirement “explicitly ideological.”
Russ Roberts: Why Economists Suck at Explaining Life
The EconTalk host and Wild Problems author talks about the limits of cost-benefit analyses.
Want An Academic Job? Start Preparing Your DEI Statement.
More universities than ever are now requiring lengthy DEI statements from job applicants. Is that good for academic freedom?
Phil Magness: Holding Leftists and Libertarians Accountable
The intellectual watchdog keeps tabs on everyone from The 1619 Project's Nikole Hannah-Jones to Mises Institute's Hans-Hermann Hoppe in the name of serious scholarship.
Russ Roberts: Why Economists Are Irrelevant
The host of EconTalk and author of Wild Problems says our biggest decisions don't submit to easy cost-benefit analyses.
Advice to Entering Law Students—2022
Some ideas that might help you make better use of the opportunities available to you in law school.
What Law Professors Think About Legal Issues—and Why it Matters
A new study sheds interesting light on these questions.
Is Twitter-Famous Princeton Historian Kevin Kruse a Plagiarist?
His 2000 thesis on civil-rights-era Atlanta lifts passages from other people's work.
Should We Forgive Student Debt?
Listen to an Intelligence Squared US debate featuring Nick Gillespie.
MIT Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirements for Admissions
Doing away with standardized testing doesn't help low-income applicants gain entry to elite colleges.
When Professors Do Foreign Policy
What the John Mearsheimer controversy tells us about theory’s role in international affairs.
How an Academic Grudge Turned Into a #MeToo Panic
How the weaponization of sexual misconduct allegations wrecked Florian Jaeger's life and cost his university millions
Laura Kipnis: How COVID Supercharged the #MeToo Movement
The Love in the Time of Contagion author says sexual paranoia is on the rise.
Law & Contemporary Problems Symposium on "Sex in Law" Publishes Disputed Article
Some student editors had resigned from the journal due to the inclusion of an "anti-trans" article by philosopher Kathleen Stock.
Walter Dellinger, RIP
Dellinger was a famed constitutional law scholar at Duke University, and also held important positions in government during the Clinton Administration.
The Value of Ideological Diversity in Academia
Universities are better off if the faculty do not all think alike
John McWhorter: How To Defeat 'Woke Racism'
The New York Times columnist and Columbia University linguist on the "new religion" he says has "betrayed Black America."
The Academic Freedom Podcast #6 on Tenure in Georgia
A conversation with the AAUP and FIRE about changes in the tenure system at state universities in Georgia
Academic Freedom Trouble at the University of Michigan
The Academic Freedom Alliance rebukes Michigan for its handling of Bright Sheng case
More on the MIT Disinvitation of Dorian Abbot
The Academic Freedom Alliance responds to the provost's public email
The Most Cited Law Faculty, 2016-2020 (Updated)
A few Volokh Conspirators are among the most cited legal scholars in their fields.
Tenure Rules at the University System of Georgia
The board of regents proposes sweeping changes that would significantly weaken tenure protections for faculty.
2021 Study of Law Faculty Scholarly Impact Released
The latest edition of the Sisk, Catlin, Anderson, and Gunderson study of faculty scholarly impact is out. Download it while it's hot.
The Chair Makes Comedy Out of College's Absurd Status Quo
Sandra Oh leads Netflix's satire on the state of academia today.