In 2024, I was honored to deliver the Roscoe Pound Lecture at the University of Nebraska College of Law. The article based on that lecture is now in print, and until the Nebraska Law Review updates ...

The University of California system has ended its use of mandatory diversity statements in faculty hiring, repudiating a controversial practice that it had pioneered and long championed. It’s hard to ...

Ann Arbor — Diversity statements will no longer be used in University of Michigan faculty hiring, promotion and tenure, a controversial move some argue would remove "litmus tests" that restrict ...

It’s likely that most Californians have never heard of the Levering Act, passed by the California Legislature in 1950, but it symbolized the state’s political orientation in the post-World War II era.

Professor Patrick Lawrence argues legislation on the agenda for a House committee meeting Wednesday, March 19, 2025, violate First Amendment free speech rights. (Stock photo by Getty Images) ...

The University of California system has wisely decided this month to end its requirement that faculty job applicants submit a “diversity statement.” While it’s a reasonable goal to expect a university ...