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Media Mentions
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The Strippers’ Union Faces Employers’ Trump Card
August 1, 2024
Lilith and Velveeta used to love dancing at the Star Garden topless bar in Los Angeles. A large stage and free rein to pick their…
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Is gig worker pay transparency really too much to hope for?
August 1, 2024
An article by Ashley Nunes: Uber and Lyft drivers are contractors, not employees. That’s the verdict from California’s top court, ending a bitter, yearslong dispute…
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The European Union’s historic Artificial Intelligence Act taking effect this week has the potential to expose even US companies seeking to comply with its intellectual…
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Senators line up to support permitting package
July 31, 2024
Energy and Natural Resources Chair Joe Manchin and ranking member John Barrasso are poised to clear a major hurdle in their quest to revamp the…
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An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: We already knew the monumental stakes in this election: prosecutor v felon, the rule of law v the rule…
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An article by Lawrence Lessig: Free and open-source software has driven technological innovation and the spread of technical skills. The freedom to share and build upon…
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Biden’s Supreme Court Reform Plan Is Doomed to Fail
July 30, 2024
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced his Supreme Court reform package in 1937, he had just won reelection with more…
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Today’s Good Question: Kamala Harris has to raise her own campaign money, right? They can’t just hand over what was donated to the Biden campaign.
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What We Want to Fight For: A Review of “Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change”
July 23, 2024
For several years, beginning in the mid-aughts, every few months I drove up to central Wisconsin from my home in Evanston to visit a relative…
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The Environmental Protection Agency is racing to deliver a fortune in taxpayer money through its largest-ever climate grant program. The surge in spending aims to…
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An article by Kenneth Mack: One of the more striking questions raised by the Supreme Court’s controversial recent decisions — such as its partial shielding…
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Regardless of how the COVID-19 pandemic started, it’s clear that deadly diseases can jump from animals to humans ‒ and a new report from Harvard…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: JD Vance’s Yale Law School pedigree came up at least a dozen times at the Republican National Convention. His degree…
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on July 15 rejected “by operation of law” requests to reconsider its transmission planning and cost allocation rule, which has…
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Two senators were among a flood of at least a dozen Democrats who called on President Biden to drop out of the presidential race Friday…
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Is JD Vance Really A Friend Of Labor?
July 22, 2024
Earlier this year Senate Democrats penned a letter attacking Amazon over its labor practices, calling the retail giant’s subcontracted delivery network a big scheme to…
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Mushroom edibles are soaring in popularity across the U.S., claiming to offer a variety of mind-altering experiences, from the mild — a boost in focus…
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An article co-written by Sharon Block and Rajesh Nayak: The Supreme Court has done a lot of big things in the past couple of years…
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On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, ruling that Special Counsel Jack Smith was…
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Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law scholar who has advised Joe Biden as the president prepares to back dramatic reforms to the US supreme court, has…
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Trump Judge Followed Radical Supreme Court’s Playbook
July 17, 2024
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: You don’t need a legal expert to tell you that Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision striking down the appointment of Jack…