Josh Blackman is a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston and the President of the Harlan Institute. Follow him @JoshMBlackman.
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Amateur Hour: A Little Bit of Python Can Let ChatGPT Discuss Your Documents
Guest Post on Chat GPT by Professor Seth Chandler (UH)
Apply for the 10th Annual James Wilson Fellowship
"The Institute will make a place for up to 15 Fellows who are law students, clerks, or lawyers and legal academics only a few years out of law school."
"Viability" in Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council and Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Justice Blackmun: "Viable is a good medical term, it isn't a legal term, but the lawyers have taken it over and the judges too."
The "Denominator" Problem At Stanford Law School
At what point does a permissible protest turn into unlawful heckling?
SG Flips Position on Whether Removed Climate Change Cases Are "Inherently Federal In Nature"
"After the change in Administration and in light of those intervening developments, the United States has reexamined its position and has concluded that state-law claims like those pleaded here should not be recharacterized as claims arising under federal common law."
Justice Janet Protasiewicz, Say Hello To Caperton v. Massey
The candidate, who spoke about her "values" on abortion and gerrymandering, received substantial financial support from donors who lobby for those two key issues.
Joan Biskupic Breaks Some News About Pavan v. Smith and Masterpiece Cakeshop
Did Roberts and Kennedy swap votes to GVR Pavan and grant Masterpiece?
West Virginia Legislature Enacts RFRA, With Abortion Carveout
WV is looking to get ahead of RFRA-challenges to post-Dobbs litigation.
Harlan Institute-Ashbrook Virtual Supreme Court - Round of 4
The top 4 teams of HS Students presented oral argument in Students for Fair Admission v. UNC.
Do Court-Appointed Prosecutors Violate The Separation of Powers?
Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh argue they do, in defense of--checks notes--Steven Donziger.
Disqualifying Apex Officials Due To Perceived Conflicts Of Interest
In Israel and in the United States.
Will Havens Realty Be "Abandoned" Like The Lemon Test?
Another Burger Court precedent is on the chopping block.
Joan Biskupic's Barely-There Exclusives
Gone are the days that Biskupic told us things we didn't already know.
Higher education faces an inflection point with DEI
Stanford Law School was just the cardinal in the coal mine.
Democracy Died in Darkness in Harvard Trial Sidebars
Judge Allison Burroughs refused to unseal an anti-asian joke shared by a federal employee to Harvard's Dean of Admissions.
