…an accreditation body that focuses on a specific program in higher education, law schools. Other accreditation nonprofits are geared toward entire institutions—think the undergraduate-level colleges and universities—and distance education, which…
…and the progressive left is between the culture of business and the culture of law—and, by extension, between university business schools and university law schools, where progressivism has its ideological…
…reasons for some educators leaving their classrooms early. Likewise, students have been bailing on public schools. The United States now has some of the highest enrollments in private and homeschools…
…of complex material and quickly formulate convincing arguments. Even at top schools, however, these abilities are not uniformly distributed, especially when campuses recruit students who are not the best and…
…1972, Title IX has fundamentally changed the environment of higher education and college athletics in the United States, ensuring equal opportunities for women in both fields. The law states that…
…advocating for clinics on ships, and university health centers dispensing abortion pills—now available in vending machines at 39 schools across 17 states. The lack of education on the inherent value…
…version of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. He asserts, “If you want to respect the rule of law, you have to start from the original law given, which was Moses….
…the sole accreditor of America’s law schools. In short, much must be done to reform politicized accreditation—and much is already underway. But Florida stands out for leading the charge in…
…the courts with friendly judges who view free speech as racist—remember critical race theory arose in law schools—it could mark the end of free speech in the U.S. Given that…
…of religious schools. Institutions with religious missions can maintain codes of conduct or statements of faith without risking accreditation if these policies align with federal law or court rulings. The…
…French, not dozens or hundreds. Canada has two official legal systems, English Common Law and French Civil Law. Canada, until Justin Trudeau, historically has been allied with the other Commonwealth…
…for all cash-constrained institutions like Arcadia. It would create a massively unfair advantage for the handful of schools that are capable of putting millions of up-front dollars into the program…
…has earned degrees from Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Columbia, including an M.D. in neurology, in addition to her law degree. She has argued 15 cases before the Supreme Court. I…
…compliance with the 1990 federal law, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). NAGPRA was enacted to return human remains to culturally affiliated, federally recognized tribes. Cultural affiliation…
…to recognize these universal truths in a moral way since they exist as part of the natural law, and since morality—alongside most secular laws—was essentially codified by the Jewish law…
…university law schools. Academic law serves as the “source code” for modern politics, often undermining the rule of law and social cohesion. “Lawfare” involves manipulating the judiciary to distort its…
…who do, as we saw at Yale Law School in 2022? Law schools shouldn’t get a pass for issuing aspirational statements while perpetuating inquiry-stifling norms. To assess a law school’s…
…principles of professional negligence, the courts have repeatedly rejected their lawsuits. Case law is littered with the likes of Donohue v. Copiague Union Free School District, where a high school…
…been used in all public schools—and in many private schools—to justify what has been taught to teachers or students in recent decades. Phelps’s book is mainly about program evaluation and…
…that co-list courses or provide some administrative coordination of different subjects in an academic course catalogue—e.g., law and philosophy or computer science and psychology. Some universities, such as Stanford, have…
…leading scholar in the Ohio Northern University Law School—a leading authority on the jurisprudence of Justice Clarence Thomas—and a fine teacher as well. His firing last year, initiated by law…
…result of that environment.” When an institution created a hostile environment for both a woman and man, a federal appeals court found that did not violate the civil rights laws,…
…for all the men’s and women’s sports programs. The intercollegiate athletic programs of more than one thousand other schools lose money and need to be subsidized, usually by mandatory fees…
…duped into paying handsomely for cultural Marxist rubbish at the expense of the law and institutional competitiveness, a succession of schools and companies are seeking to break free from the…
…pandemic struck and these bureaucracies got a sense of their own power by shutting down schools and mandating masks and vaccines, the time was right for purging the ranks of…
…by establishing norms. Psychology-based professors also teach business, medicine, law, education, and public policy schools. The implications of having either an ideologically dominated or incompetent field in this many areas…
…anti-discrimination law, dangling the threat of punishment over every discussion.” As Tuccille observes, “requiring ‘climate assessments’ of schools to determine if campus discourse has passed some invisible hostility threshold that…
…governments helped finance the planet’s best universities. Aside from obtaining resources, these schools benefited from competition and academic diversity—different kinds of schools, some progressive, some conservative, some religious, others militantly…
…ideal of scholarship. By undermining the integrity of applicants, the diversity statement requirement erodes the ideal of scholarship itself. Law professor Eugene Volokh illustrates the moral hazard of this approach…
…violent, anti-Israeli campus protests this spring demonstrated vicious anti-Semitism and a disregard for the rule of law, sometimes preventing other students and campus administrators from performing their duties. We are…