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Even if federal gun laws remain intact, gun-rights activists will likely invoke the Court's ruling at local and state levels. Mark Tushnet, a constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School, says he anticipates a "period of uncertainty" as lower courts wrestle with whether the ruling can be applied to their jurisdictions. Ultimately, he says, "the answer is going to be yes, but it's going to take one big case or a series of smaller ones to establish." Randy Barnett, a professor of legal theory at Georgetown University Law Center, notes that while Scalia's opinion "telegraphs...
...these talented young scholars to the faculty,” Kagan said in the statement. Expanding the size of the faculty has been a key priority for Kagan, who has tried to poach tenured professors at other universities like Cass R. Sunstein ’75 and Mark V. Tushnet ’67. I. GLENN COHEN Cohen, a specialist in bioethics, was an academic fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at the Law School this year. He publishes on topics ranging from pediatric research ethics to end-of-life decision-making...
...judge dismissed the lawsuit that challenges the ban on affirmative action that was approved by voters, known as Proposal 2. In 2006, Michigan residents voted to end affirmative action in public universities and agencies in the state by a majority of 58 percent. Harvard Law School professor Mark V. Tushnet said he thought the court’s decision was “not surprising” due to the claims present in the lawsuit. “One of the lines of argument that the challengers presented was that affirmative action had to be among the policy options...
Cromwell Professor of Law Mark V. Tushnet ’67, who is also regarded as a leading figure in the CLS movement, said in an interview that Unger was a “central” figure in developing the movement’s theory, and that “very early on he...described a number of important aspects of Critical Legal Studies and captured in very important ways what the enterprise was about...
...academic policy side, [CLS] was very contentious—people regarded proponents of critical legal studies as anti-law in some sense,” Tushnet said. “There were cultural differences between the younger generation attracted to Critical Legal Studies and the older generation that found it unsettling...