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Cornell students and faculty expressed mixed opinions regarding the Biden-Harris Administration’s rescinding of the Free Inquiry Rule portion pertaining to religious student groups on college campuses.

If the Court bans race-conscious admissions, decades of progress toward equal opportunity will be reversed and the wealth of perspectives that we enjoy in academic forums today could dwindle in years to come. We also stand to lose a time-honored, effective mechanism “to counteract the inherited disadvantages that unequally but in patterned ways burden certain races in our society but not others,” Prof. Nelson Tebbe, law, told me. Tebbe, a constitutional law expert, stressed the importance of...

The leaked SCOTUS opinion draft poised to overturn Roe lays a "roadmap" to possibly strike down other rights like same-sex marriage, law experts say.

A guest speaker debate with the Alliance Defending Freedom held on Trans Day of Visibility sparked protests.

/PRNewswire/ -- Tomiko Brown-Nagin will lead a discussion entitled, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality," as the keynote...

Lawrence G. Sager (University of Texas at Austin - School of Law) & Nelson Tebbe (Cornell Law School) have posted Discriminatory Permissions and Structural Injustice (Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 106, p. 803, 2021) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: America...

March 15, 2021 Students are invited to register now for Cornell’s Summer Session, which will be held entirely online this year. Students can earn up to 15 credits by taking regular Cornell courses taught online by university faculty. Courses are offered in three-, six- and eight-week sessions between June 1 and Aug. 3. In addition to the regular roster of online courses offered each year by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions (SCE), courses traditionally held on or off camp...

Williams also said that, so far, none of those penalties have been paid. While McClure and his staff skirted the rules, Federal records show Calvary Chapel San Jose collected $340,400 in forgivable loans from the US Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), as part of the CARES ACT COVID relief package passed last year. That apparent contradiction irks the county officials who have been fighting McClure and Calvary Chapel in court. “It’s disappointing that on one...

Williams also said that, so far, none of those penalties have been paid. While McClure and his staff skirted the rules, Federal records show Calvary Chapel San Jose collected $340,400 in forgivable loans from the US Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), as part of the CARES ACT COVID relief package passed last year. That apparent contradiction irks the county officials who have been fighting McClure and Calvary Chapel in court. “It’s disappointing that on one...