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Washington Post
Aziz Rana: 9/11 Didn’t Change Everything. Old Fights and Illusions Still Haunted Us.
In this Washington Post essay, Cornell Law School professor Aziz Rana discusses the 9/11 attacks and offers insight into how we can reflect on this tragic event twenty years later.
MSNBC
Michael Dorf: Texas Abortion Law Reveals the Limits of Our Constitutional Rights
Washington Post
Dan Awrey: Coinbase CEO Says SEC Has Threatened to Sue Over Crypto Lending Program
Financial Times
Charles Whitehead: SEC Puts Crypto Industry on Notice with Coinbase Move
Reuters
Jared Carter: Threats of Violence to U.S. Election Officials Highlight Legal Gray Area
Reuters
Valerie Hans: Theranos Judge Requires COVID Shots for Jurors, But Will That Skew the Jury Pool?
Featured Research
Professor John Blume
The Delaware Death Penalty: An Empirical Study
This article is part of a symposium that honors David Baldus, a great scholar and great man, a quiet man with a strong passion for justice. We study the operation of Delaware’s death penalty in the modern era of capital punishment.
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Why Is Torture 'Different' and How 'Different' Is It?
Almost every serious commentator to address the moral and legal question of torture has taken for granted the proposition that the infliction of torture is a sufficiently grave evil to require a distinctly demanding moral scrutiny.
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Stings and Scams: ‘Fake News,’ the First Amendment, and the New Activist Journalism
Constitutional law, technological innovations, and the rise of a cultural “right to know” have recently combined to yield “fake news,” as illustrated by an anti-abortion citizen-journalist sting operation that scammed Planned Parenthood.
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Dangerous Citations
This Article considers when optional case citations may do more harm than good. There are valid reasons for citing to non-binding precedent — to promote consistency in the law.
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