"If you pay your employees under the table, a good rule of thumb is not to write it down," said prof @DanielJHemel in @washingtonpost piece on the charges brought against the Trump Organization and its CFO buff.ly/36gG1po
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- James Goodale, '58: Former General Counsel of the New York Times and Famous First Amendment Lawyer on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange bit.ly/2EgjfB0
- In @Newsweek Prof. Todd Henderson examines land acknowledgements through a lens of the history of Native American “conquest and displacement.” buff.ly/3AYVk6S
- President Trump has appointed Clinical Prof. Emily Underwood, ’13, to serve as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor for Policy, focusing primarily on economic affairs. buff.ly/40FSGPF
- Prof. Laura Weinrib: "The ACLU's free speech stance should be about social justice, not 'timeless' principles"
- Professors @BrianLeiter and @WilliamBaude are founding members of the Academic Freedom Alliance (academicfreedom.org/about/), "an alliance of college and university faculty members who are dedicated to upholding the principle of academic freedom." chronicle.com/article/a-new-…
- President Trump today announced that he is nominating Neomi Rao, '99, to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Rao is currently administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
- Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum joined @BBCRadio4 to explain on why universities should cultivate imagination, not just train workers (audio, beginning at 21:30)
- Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett), Former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, to Join University of Chicago Law School bit.ly/2B4aZmg
- “Prisons are becoming nursing homes,” Prof. @ezunk told @NPR. “Who is incarceration serving at that point? Do we want a system that is humane?” buff.ly/3YQhGR3
- Students and faculty wear black to protest Ferguson decision
- “The labor conditions of incarcerated workers in many US prisons violate the most fundamental human rights to life and dignity,” said Clinical Prof. @cfloed. The Global Human Rights Clinic and @ACLU released a report examining prison labor in the US. buff.ly/3xTWDlx
