Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law. Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any institution. He is also the co-host of the Free Speech Unmuted podcast.
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Looking for a Research Assistant for a Year (Good for a College-to-Law-School Gap Year)
[UPDATE 3/14/2026: The position has been filled.]
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"Law Is Irrelevant to the U.S. Attack on Iran," by Prof. Jack Goldsmith (Harvard)
"And Congress is on the hook as much as the president."
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First Amendment Protects Right to Use Nudity as Protest (There, a Pro-Trans Protest) in Public
So the Washington Supreme Court said yesterday, though other courts have disagreed.
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Interesting "Hate Crime" Opinion
According to PBS, the crime in the case was the "first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity."
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Diversity (the Civil Procedure Kind) and Self-Identification
"Courts cannot accept a model where an entity has a public-facing identity which it then renounces based on its behind-the-scenes activity."
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From Prof. Jack Goldsmith (Harvard) on the Tariff Decision
"A massive defeat for the president and an extraordinary affirmation of the Supreme Court's power."
I Got 99 Delegations, but a Tariff Ain't One
Words from noted rapper I-Eepa,
"The Day Will Come When Those Disappointed by Today's Result" as to Tariffs …
"will appreciate the legislative process for the bulwark of liberty it is."
"No Recipe for a Republic"
"[C]ontinual and permanent accretion of power in the hands of one man," stemming from broad readings of Congressional delegation to the Executive.
"Our Founders Understood That Men Are Not Angels, and We Disregard That Insight at Our Peril When …"
"we allow the few (or the one) to aggrandize their power based on loose or uncertain authority."
Tomorrow Is National Legislator Integrity Day
Or so I've decided to call it, in honor of the 225th anniversary of the vote on renewing the Sedition Act of 1798.
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Teacher's First Amendment Claim Related to Sharing "What Is Privilege?" Post Can Go Forward
"Superintendent Hamlet testified that Defendants viewed the Privilege Post as a criticism of the Black Lives Matter ... movement. He did not think such criticism was valid and believed criticism of BLM was enough in itself to justify punishing a teacher."
