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How Did Support for International Humanitarian Law and Norms Morph into Support for Hamas and its Goals?

The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent About The...

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Reason.com

David Bernstein

Israel's Changing Strategic Calculus

The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent About The...

21.07.2026 3

Reason.com

David Bernstein

The Ideological Imbalance in the Academy is Even Worse than Many Critics Believe

The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent About The...

20.07.2026 5

Reason.com

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The Second Circuit's Problematic Rule 702 Analysis in its Recent Tylenol Decision

The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent About The...

20.07.2026 2

Reason.com

David Bernstein

On the Uniqueness of the Holocaust

The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent About The...

20.07.2026 2

Reason.com

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Israel's Conduct in Gaza Does Not Resemble Genocide

The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent About The...

11.05.2026 10

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David Bernstein

The Awful Virginia Redistricting Referendum

The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent About The...

22.04.2026 10

Reason.com

David Bernstein

Troubling News for Jews from the Michigan Democratic Party

The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent About The...

20.04.2026 10

Reason.com

David Bernstein

All public schools should be making their curricula transparent

When a group of parents in Philadelphia approached us about their children’s new social studies curriculum, they said they couldn’t review it....

15.04.2026 10

The Hill

David Bernstein

A modern Presidential Fitness Test can help America's struggling children

The Presidential Fitness Test returns after Trump signs an executive order, targeting childhood fitness, mental health and national resilience goals.

11.04.2026 30

Fox News

David Bernstein

Laws/Rules Made Up to Apply to Israel

The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent About The...

07.04.2026 10

Reason.com

David Bernstein

Marco Rubio Threatens to "Unleash Chiang" on Iran. What?

The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent About The...

04.03.2026 10

Reason.com

David Bernstein

Is Australian Attorney and Activist Randa Abdel-Fattah an "Extremist Terrorist Sympathizer"?

14.01.2026 20

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David Bernstein

Title VI Hostile Environment Law in the Shadow of Antisemitic Violence

07.01.2026 20

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Federal Judges Continue to Ignore the Plain Text of Federal Rule of Evidence 702

23.12.2025 20

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An Open Letter to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts (Guest Post from Prof. Nelson Lund)

23.12.2025 20

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Columbia University Faculty Behaving Badly

12.12.2025 10

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"Our Job is to Teach the Children, Not be the Children"

10.12.2025 10

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The Baffling Opinion in the Yakoby v. University of Pennsylvania Title VI Case

07.12.2025 50

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How Israeli Lawyers Vet Bombing Targets

05.12.2025 10

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David Bernstein

Attempts to Redefine Genocide are Undermining the Concept

22.11.2025 20

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Why I Am Resigning from the Heritage Foundation (Guest-Post by Adam Mossoff)

15.11.2025 10

Reason.com

David Bernstein

An Extraordinary Panel at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers' Convention

14.11.2025 20

Reason.com

David Bernstein

Institutional Antisemitism at UCLA and Especially its Law School

12.11.2025 20

Reason.com

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My review of John Witt, The Radical Fund

03.11.2025 10

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"No Justice, No Peace" and True Threats

03.11.2025 10

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Is "Impeding Travel for Many Students" as Part of a Protest First Amendment-Protected Speech?

01.11.2025 10

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David Bernstein

Crisis on the Right as Heritage Foundation President Roberts Seems to Go Groyper

31.10.2025 10

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David Bernstein

Hostages and "Hostages"

14.10.2025 10

Reason.com

David Bernstein

Does Denying Hamas Committed Sexual Violence on 10/7 Constitute "Criticism of Israel's Treatment of Palestinians"

29.09.2025 10

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"Pro-Palestine" Groups Rally Behind Man Convicted of Three Violent Antisemitic Attacks in NYC

19.09.2025 30

Reason.com

David Bernstein

What Does the Rabbi Who Conducted Your Wedding Say About Your Religious and Political Views?

17.09.2025 10

Reason.com

David Bernstein

Campus Violence and Threats Against Jewish Students Since October 7, Part II

16.09.2025 10

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Debating the UCLA Anti-Israel Encampment

16.09.2025 10

Reason.com

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Campus Violence and Threats Against Jewish Students Since October 7, Part I

15.09.2025 20

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David Bernstein

The Racial Identity of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews

10.09.2025 20

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David Bernstein

Are Jews Protected from "Racial" Discrimination Under Title VI?

26.08.2025 10

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David Bernstein

Affirmative Action and the Dangers of Motivated Legal Reasoning

22.08.2025 10

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Setting the Record Straight on Masking Rules at George Mason University

29.07.2025 10

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David Bernstein

Hamas Depravity Feeds Antizionist Intellectual Depravity

22.07.2025 10

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David Bernstein

The Worst Libertarian Argument for Large-Scale Immigration to the US

21.07.2025 20

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David Bernstein

Freedom of Expression Does Not Include the Right to Trespass

03.07.2025 10

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David Bernstein

Some Dubious Reasoning in Judge Gerard McHugh's Haverford Opinion

02.07.2025 10

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David Bernstein

The Supreme Court, Education, and the KKK in the 1920s

30.06.2025 20

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Supporting Free Speech and Countering Antisemitism on American College Campuses

29.06.2025 10

Reason.com

David Bernstein

Fired Prof. Maura Finkelstein: A Martyr for Academic Freedom?

07.06.2025 10

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David Bernstein

Should Universities Treat Discrimination against Zionists as Discrimination against Jews?

05.06.2025 10

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David Bernstein

Two David Bernsteins on Free Speech and Antisemitism

04.06.2025 10

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David Bernstein

A Test University Officials Should Use in Enforcing Conduct Rules for Protests

04.06.2025 10

Reason.com

David Bernstein

My peaceful hand was met with murder in woke terror attack on Jewish Museum

The cult of ideological extremism in our institutions has grown out of control.

23.05.2025 10

New York Post

David Bernstein