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Justice Thomas drops in to teach Contracts for Dean Maggs at GW Law.

(Scalia, J., dissenting) .

Per Justice Ginsburg today in Ortiz v. Jordan . Logical enough...but will this encourage courts to deny summary judgment in order to avoid a...

Abandoning its pre- Grutter v. Bollinger precedent .

(Oregonian/J.O.)

From the Wall Street Journal : As part of her 1986 Supreme Court clerkship application, [Supreme Court nominee Elena] Kagan filed her most r...

The Huffington Post reports that Obama is likely to nominate Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday. Read about it here.

Dr. Leiter makes a convincing case for why President Obama's choice to replace Justice Stevens will be Janet Napolitano, the current Sec...

Can justices still learn on the job, or are they confined to strict party lines? Linda Greenhouse examines how Justice Stevens began his ca...

As many had predicted, this term will be Justice Stevens's last on the Court.  The New York Times reports : In a brief letter to Presid...

Senator Specter urges Justice Stevens to stay on the Court for the remainder of this term because he feels that the Senate will not be able ...

I was able to attend oral arguments in Barber v. Thomas , 09-5201 (2010) yesterday. The question presented in that case was whether the ...

The New York Times reports that dissenting from the bench is on the rise. With Justice Ginsburg holding the record for most oral dissents, ...

Adam Liptak wrote a fascinating article in today's New York Times regarding the habit of Supreme Court Justices to predict the future b...

As I discussed in a previous post , I find the role of partisanship and its potential to hinder insightful debate within a law school atmosp...

From the National Law Journal : As Sotomayor wraps up her second full argument cycle as a Supreme Court justice, it has become clear that sh...

The Business Insider reports that Justice Scalia gave an attorney arguing before the Court a quick lesson on word usage: Randolph "Do...

When Justices Go Wild! This story pairs nicely with the ATL piece on Scalia's cameo . C.J.R. went to dinner with his wife at some swanky...

For this edition of the Clerkship Series, I decided to rank the Top 14 law schools (the so-called " T14 ") by all-time Supreme Cou...

Breaking news : The Supremes have granted cert. on the Chicago gun case. The issue is whether or not the rule from Heller (i.e. the right t...