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Law Journal columnist Joel Cohen addresses a law student's controversial—and award-winning—capstone paper that promotes ...
Four of the deans who started on July 1 are at a T14 law school, and three of those deans are from within their own ...
Several Minnesota school districts say they don’t have the money to comply with the state’s mascot law, which isn't exactly ...
The federal government is launching a probe into a Long Island school district’s attempts to rebrand its sports team to ...
The Ford Foundation has announced Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken as its next president. Gerken, a leading expert on constitutional law and democracy, will succeed Darren Walker, who has ...
An anti-woke Native American organization has filed a preliminary injunction against the New York Board of Regents’ ban on ...
School districts in New York are working to implement the state’s cellphone ban policy by August 1st. School districts across the state have until August 1st to answer the call.
The New York Senate has voted to legalize medically assisted suicide, a move that one Catholic bioethicist told OSV News marked “a dark day” for the state’s residents.
The White House had accused New York last week of illegal discrimination, objecting to the state’s requirement that school districts banish mascots that appropriate Native American culture or ...
The US Department of Education (DOE) announced Friday that New York state has violated federal civil rights law by banning Native American school mascots while permitting mascots derived from other ...
The school district has used the “Chief” nickname and logo for decades. The mascot’s image, an illustrated side profile of a Native American man wearing a feathered headdress, is plastered ...
"This is potentially a watershed moment for New York State prisons," said Michael Mushlin, professor emeritus of the Pace University Law School who has studied New York’s prison system. He said ...