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Almost exactly one year ago, a new legal tech s،up, The Contract Network, came out of stealth, with a mission to “radically accelerate the time for contract negotiations” through an AI-powered contract collaboration platform where all parties to a deal engage in a secure and neutral environment. The company’s cofounder and CEO, Jim Wagner, is a legal […]

I was delighted to sign on to this amicus brief supporting the challenge to Texas’s S.B. 12 (Woodlands Pride, Inc. v. Paxton (5th Cir.)), which was filed on behalf of Prof. Dale Carpenter (SMU), Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley), the Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic at Vanderbilt Law Sc،ol, and me. Here’s a summary of the Texas statute, […]

Having apparently learned a lesson from the ،e that befell the presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania after they testified before Congress last December, last week Columbia University President Minouche Shafik gave an unequivocal “yes” answer to the question from Representative Elise Stefanik that tripped up Shafik’s erstwhile Ivy League ،rs: whether calls […]

Since the end of the 19th century, the United States has been on a quest to find a met،d of execution that would be safe, reliable, and humane. We have moved from hanging to the electric chair, from the electric chair to the gas chamber, from the gas chamber to lethal injection, and from lethal […]

On Thursday, April 25th the Supreme Court will hear ، argument in T،p v. United States. I have signed an amicus brief in this case, along with former Attorneys General Ed Meese, Michael Mukasey, and Professor Gary Lawson, and with Citizens United, arguing that Special Counsel Jack Smith was uncons،utionally appointed by Attorney General Merrick […]

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear argument in an Eighth Amendment case, City of Grants P،, Oregon v. Johnson. One thing I will be wat،g for is whether the justices in their questions treat “cruel and unusual” as two separate requirements, or as one. Read as a hendiadys, “cruel and unusual” would mean “unusually […]

Here are the closing paragraphs of yes،ay’s NBC News article, “Columbia University pro،rs resume demonstrations after m، arrests“: Is this really a fair and objective summary of what happened at the Chemerinsky dinner? “Confronted a Muslim student,” with no further explanation, strongly implies that the student was confronted for being a Muslim, rather than that […]