Salt Blog

By Vinay Harpalani Savannah Law School On Wednesday, December 9, for the second time, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. The question in Fisher II is the exactly the same it was in Fisher I: does the University of Texas at…

Nov. 24, 2015 We are witnessing an alarming trend across the nation, where overt acts of racism and dismissive responses to racist conduct continue to plague institutions of higher learning. As officials launch an investigation over last week’s hate crime incident at Harvard Law School, the Society of American Law…

Villanova Law School will co-host a pipeline conference with The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) on Friday, November 13, 2015 from 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. The conference will include thought-provoking discussions with lawyers and advocates on the obstacles that marginalized communities face in accessing and…

14-981 bsac Society of Am Law Teachers Nov. 6, 2015 — The Society of American Law Teachers (“SALT”) has filed a friend-of-the-court (amicus curiae) brief in support of the respondents in the United States Supreme Court case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.  The brief was completed and filed thanks to the pro bono help…

By Benjamin G. Davis, Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law In the Meshal decision on Friday, October 23, 2015, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit found (as did the district court below) what FBI agents allegedly did to an American citizen abroad quite troubling.

In this “Age of Austerity,”  most law professors and administrators are doing more – often with less. That means new projects, longer hours, more responsibilities and thinner resources.  We are committed to maintaining excellence for our students and institutions.  At the same time, assaults on academic freedom, professional status…

SALT proudly announces that Professor Justin Hansford is the 2015 Junior Faculty Teaching Award Winner.  The award recognizes an outstanding recent entrant into legal education who demonstrates a commitment to justice, equality and academic excellence. It is designed to honor an emerging teacher and support an outstanding individual…

The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) joins others in condemning the murders of nine African Americans at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and the series of church burnings in the region. But condemnation is not enough. We must use these tragic incidents to prompt and…

SALT mourns the loss of Professor F. Dennis Greene of the University of Dayton School of Law, at the age of 66.    Professor Greene was a SALT Board member from 1999 to 2001 and a founding member of the popular music group Sha Na Na.   Greene, who taught…

SALT is proud to announce the following Co-Presidents Elect and Nominees to the Board of Governors.   The Nominees will be presented as a slate at the Members’ Meeting on Friday October 2, 2015 at 6 p.m. Pacific Time at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Anaheim, CA.  …

SALT was proud to be one of the sponsors supporting Law For Black Lives, a national gathering of lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers committed to building a world where #BlackLivesMatter. The Law For Black Lives program conference was held July 31- Aug. 1 in Harlem. It united…

The Council of the ABA’s Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar met in Chicago July 31 to consider among other items the proposed deletion of Interpretation 305-2, which prohibits law schools granting credit for paid externships. Along with other organizations such as the Clinical Legal Education (CLEA),…

  Professor Susan Bryant CUNY School of Law Professor Jean Koh Peters Yale Law School Sherrilyn Ifill NAACP LDF and Maryland Law At its upcoming Annual Dinner to be held on January 8, 2016 in New York City, SALT will honor three champions of its mission of justice, diversity and…

Statement on the Proposed Changes to the Department of Education’s REPAYE Plan August 10, 2015 The Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), one of the largest independent national organizations of law teachers, supports efforts to aggressively respond to the problem of student debt in this country. As the Department of…

SALT proudly counts the late  Professor Derrick Bell among its founders.  Professor Bell, who pioneered the study of Critical Race Theory, was a faculty member at Harvard Law School in 1974 when he, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and 31 other law professors founded SALT “to convey our students an appreciation of…

By Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice.  On August 7, it bent a little more that way with the monumental passage of the American Psychological Association Resolution banning…

Marc Poirier, a law professor at Seton Hall Law and a really wonderful human being, passed away Sunday after a brave battle with cancer. Tributes about his work in the academy have been populating a wide range of legal academy blogs this week. After all, he was an exceptionally bright…

By Benjamin G. Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law This week the American Psychological Association (APA) is holding its annual meeting in turmoil resulting from the scathing independent review – the Independent Review Relating to APA Ethics Guidelines, National Security Interrogations, and Torture or the…

By Hazel Weiser Our system of funding higher education through grants and loans might be exacerbating income inequality, especially along racial lines. In the 21st century, a college degree is the new high school diploma, necessary to acquire any economic independence in a post-manufacturing era, although certainly no guarantee. And according…

SALT is proud to announce the following Co-Presidents Elect and Nominees to the Board of Governors.   The Nominees will be presented as a slate at the Members’ Meeting on Friday October 2, 2015 at 6 p.m. Pacific Time at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Anaheim, CA.  …