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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

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The class-action suit against Israel's funding defies law and logic

Their case is entirely without legal merit. 

13.01.2025 10

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

‘Flag-gate’ led one jurist to issue an apology, but it wasn’t Samuel Alito

Everyone makes mistakes, including judges. Sometimes they acknowledge it. Mostly, they don’t.

30.12.2024 2

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

The fall of academic freedom with a DEI twist

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), once the “most prominent guardian of academic freedom” in the U.S., has lost its way...

16.12.2024 4

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

Just because teenagers can become lawyers doesn’t mean they should

It is simply impossible for even the most book-smart 18-year-old to have acquired the life experience necessary for the competent practice of law.  

02.12.2024 2

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

The Trump administration’s next target: naturalized US citizens 

Even “documented” immigrants will not be safe, because Miller has declared that he will pursue the seldom-used process of “denaturalization” to go...

18.11.2024 2

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

Justice Gorsuch's recusal may have doomed a man to death

Under the Supreme Court’s jumbled recusal practices, Gorsuch effectively voted to execute Glossip without reading the briefs or hearing the...

28.10.2024 9

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

Zionists are students too: University professors should take heed

Political ideology discrimination may not violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, but it is nonetheless misconduct for a college professor.

14.10.2024 3

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

Keep on punching: Why Harris wants to debate and Trump doesn't

The reality is that Trump fears Harris as a formidable opponent with a trial lawyer’s exceptional skills.

30.09.2024 10

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

'Sotomayor Rule' exposes the Supreme Court's porous ethics code

If the justices exploit the ethical loopholes they have provided for themselves, well, there is nobody who can even nominally stop them. 

16.09.2024 2

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

A stunning reversal on academic boycotts is all about Israel

The tragic irony of the new AAUP position is that it will surely be used to promote the boycott of Israeli universities, which happen to be the...

03.09.2024 3

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

The 1968 DNC protests gave us Nixon. We don't need a 2024 repeat.

A second Trump administration would be bad for Palestine, bad for Israel and bad for America, which is something that even the most ardent...

19.08.2024 1

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

Term limits aren’t enough. Expand the Supreme Court.

There is no telling how much damage the current Supreme Court majority could do in the years it would take for term limits to become effective.

05.08.2024 2

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor

Federal judges are mirroring the Supreme Court on financial disclosures

There must be something about life tenure that makes it nearly impossible for federal judges to take responsibility for faults in their financial...

22.07.2024 1

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Steven Lubet, Opinion Contributor