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By Ruben J. Garcia Burwell v Hobby Lobby justifiably received much attention on Monday here and throughout the Internet. The attention given to Hobby Lobby might have led some to overlook “the other 5-4 decision” yesterday that also had great implications for the rights and protections of low-wage workers, especially…

By Marjorie Cohn In one of the most significant Fourth Amendment rulings ever handed down by the Supreme Court, all nine justices agreed in an opinion involving two companion cases, Riley v. California and United States v. Wurie, that police generally need a warrant before reading data on the cell phone of an…

Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law With a 50 year anniversary of the Civil Rights Act being celebrated today, I thought we should fast forward to this speech of LBJ that spoke of and to the American soul. I still remember hearing it…

By Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law Watching the pundits, it has really been quite enough finding Bush Administration retreads (and other oh so serious people) speaking with straight faces about going back into Iraq.  The current meme is that we do not…

Call for Nominations: SALT Great Teacher Award and M. Shanara Gilbert Human Rights Award SALT holds an annual dinner each year during the January AALS meeting. Mark your calendars: This year the dinner will be on January 4, 2015 at a location TBA in Washington D.C. A highlight of the…

Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law The Bond v. United States case came out today in which the Supreme Court supposedly ducked the Missouri v/ Holland question by focusing on interpreting the implementing legislation for the chemical weapons convention under federalism concerns in…

Enjoy photos of SALT members at NYU's Kimmel Center.

by Marjorie Cohn The recent torturous execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma has propelled the death penalty into the national discourse. The secret three-drug cocktail prison authorities administered to Lockett – the first to render him unconscious, the second to paralyze him, and the third to stop his heart…

Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) Teaching Conference Legal Education in a Time of Change: Challenges and Opportunities  Call for Panels and Papers  Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) Teaching Conference, in partnership with the  12th Annual LatCrit-SALT Junior Faculty Development Workshop…

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SALT is proud to announce the inaugural recipient of the Junior Faculty Teaching Award, Assistant Professor Kwoka. The award recognizes an outstanding recent entrant into legal education who demonstrates a commitment to justice, equality and academic excellence through teaching. Designed to honor an emerging teacher and support an outstanding individual…

2014 JUNIOR FACULTY TEACHING AWARD  SALT is proud to announce the inaugural year of the Junior Faculty Teaching Award. The award recognizes an outstanding recent entrant into legal education who demonstrates a commitment to justice, equality and academic excellence through teaching. Designed to honor an emerging teacher and support an…

The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) expresses dismay at the United States Supreme Court’s decision April 22, 2014 in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action.  SALT filed an amicus brief supporting the Respondents to the appeal from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which struck down Michigan’s Proposal 2 on the…

By Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law, Visiting Professor Spring 2014, Albany Law School As we know, Schuette’s 6-2 boys against the girls decision came down today. A succinct description of it in the wake of Fisher is we have now moved to…

Cross post from Jurist.org JURIST Guest Columnists Leonard M. Baynes and David L. Gregory, both of the St. John’s University School of Law, discuss the anniversary of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the interplay of racial and economic justice … This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the…

Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law, Visiting Professor Spring 2014, Albany Law School “A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years…

Thanks to Randy Wagner, Dean Marty Katz, and the wonderful faculty and staff of the Sturm College of Law in Denver for hosting SALT and the seventh B.A. to J.D. Pipeline. After some great introductions we are listening to Dean Camille Nelson, a powerful advocate for modern diversity, who is…

By Marjorie Cohn Thanks to Scarlett Johansson, the American Studies Association (ASA), and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has entered our national discourse. Representatives of Palestinian civil society launched BDS in 2005, calling upon “international civil society organizations and people of conscience…

By Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez Local politics in California has ignited fear for fans of Sriracha, an extremely popular hot sauce, created for pho, a Vietnamese soup, and now fancied for Asian, taco and fusion dishes, sushi and street food. Celebrities, home chefs, even workers from…

Dear SALT members: At its meeting over the weekend in San Diego, the Council of the American Bar Association Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar (“Council”)  declined to make any changes to the current law school accreditation standard, Standard 405, which requires that each ABA-accredited law school…