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27 Jun 2018, 9:03 am
David Kokakis, UMPG’s Chief Counsel, said, “UMPG takes great pride in protecting the rights [read post]
3 Oct 2024, 5:23 pm
At various universities around the country, Students for Justice in Palestine and other pro-Hamas groups are holding events on October 7. Some of these events celebrate Palestinian "resistance," while others, throwing in a blood libel for good measure, commemorate a non-existent genocide of Palestinians by Israel since the war in Gaza began. Let's recall what happened on October 7, 2023. Thousands of Hamas terrorists, followed by "civilian" hangers-on, attacked border towns… [read post]
[David Bernstein] Johns Hopkins Jewish Student Association Board Statement on the Hopkins Encampment
10 May 2024, 3:30 pm
I thought this was worth sharing: To the Members of the Johns Hopkins Community, On Monday, April 29, the Beach became the site of a Palestine Solidarity Encampment, one of many on campuses across the nation. The encampment concerns many Hopkins students, the Jewish community included. The horrific attacks against Israel on Oct. 7 impacted us directly, with members of our community losing friends and family members. In the months since, we have mourned the loss of civilian lives - Israeli… [read post]
3 May 2024, 8:32 am
The letter, which as of this writing has over 200 hundred signatories, starts off like this: Social and Personality Psychologists on Student Protests for Justice in Palestine We are a group of faculty from various demographic, religious, and ethnic backgrounds who are trained in the methods and practice of social and personality psychology. Although there are no doubt many topics on which we disagree, we are united in this call to listen to, engage with, and protect our students as they protest the… [read post]
13 Oct 2023, 6:28 am
This was circulated to the law school community on Monday, so no excuses about it being an initial visceral reaction to be re-thought as a scope of the massacre became clear. I have the entire statement, which I am happy to share, but for now I just want to present the first paragraph. I don't really have words to describe how disgusting this is. It's both morally appalling and wildly dishonest at the same time: Palestinians in Gaza are fighting against the Israeli colonial entity on an… [read post]
1 Aug 2023, 1:26 pm
Aaron Sibarium reports for the Free Beacon: "All applicants will be required to submit a short video, no longer than 90 seconds, addressing a question chosen at random," the school's admissions page said Monday morning. "The video statement will allow applicants to provide the Admissions Committee with additional insight into their personal strengths." Critics slammed the move as a thinly veiled attempt to defy the Supreme Court's ruling and practice affirmative action… [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 6:49 am
In a very unsympathetic portrait of America First Legal, founded by former Trump administration official Stephen Miller, the Washington Post notes the following: Three weeks after AFL challenged the aid to minority farmers, it turned to an even larger federal program: the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, which gave women, minorities and veterans a head start to submit applications for nearly $29 billion in pandemic relief. The suit argued that the fund was likely to run out of money before White… [read post]
12 Dec 2022, 11:15 am
Voices for Liberty: Free Speech, Civil Rights & Social Progress Submission: December 31, 2022 — 5 p.m. EST Priority Deadline Paper proposals must be submitted by December 31, 2022, for full consideration and will be considered after the priority deadline on a rolling basis. All proposals should include a summary of issues to be addressed, the proposed methodology, and the feasibility of a completed draft by June 2023 and final submission by September 2023. Voices for Liberty will notify… [read post]
3 Nov 2022, 7:42 am
In the oral argument from SFFS v. UNC, Justice Alito raised the question, highlighted in my amicus brief and book, of whether the racial and ethnic classifications used by UNC and other universities are so arbitrary as to be unconstitutional. I have posted the colloquy below. Two comments: (1) Justice Alito asks why a student of Afghani heritage should be put in the same classification as a Chinese American. In fact, while this is far from clear from the Common Application itself, officially the… [read post]
9 Oct 2022, 9:14 am
Following up on Friday's post about several major student groups at Berkeley Law pledging not to invite "speakers that have expressed and continued to hold views … in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine." (1) Ken Marcus, whose op-ed on the situation spurred the controversy, responds to his critics here. (2) Jewish Berkeley Law students talk about their reaction here. Note that Students for Justice in Palestine consulted with every… [read post]
1 Jun 2022, 5:19 am
[A Wall Street Journal article suggests that pulse oximeters mismeasure blood oxygen levels in American minority populations, but the article fails to ask some important questions.] I am a huge advocate of using pulse oximeters, which measure blood oxygen saturation levels, to help monitor how Covid is affecting one's lungs. A pulse oximeter may have even saved my life; when I caught Covid in fall 2020, I had no trouble breathing but my handy pulse oximeter told me that my measurements were at… [read post]
11 May 2022, 7:19 am
[UCSF's "working definition" of underrepresented minorities includes Filipino, Hmong, and Vietnamese ] As regular VC readers know, I've written a book about how America's racial classifications developed and how the classifications are defined and enforced. One of the many arbitrary aspects of the classifications is that they lump together "Asian American" groups that have nothing in common--such as Bangladeshi and Cambodian Americans--into the same classification.… [read post]
29 Mar 2022, 3:41 pm
Last Wednesday, I gave a talk about Critical Race Theory at U. Chicago, as a guest of the school's Federalist Society chapter. Professor William H.J. Hubbard commented on my talk. We had an interesting, amicable discussion, with me being very critical of CRT, and Prof. Hubbarb, while agreeing with many of my criticisms, providing a more sympathetic take. You can find a video of the event here. Given the rampant dishonesty from the right and disingenuousness from the left (and maybe also vice… [read post]
28 Oct 2018, 4:14 pm
In Short, Probably NotIn the aftermath of the horrific murders at a synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday, a good part of the media, social and otherwise, wishes to blame Donald Trump. Surely, Trump's inflammatory rhetoric doesn't exactly calm societal waters, and his remarks on Charlottesville, though often exaggerated by hostile sources, did not exactly come across as a rousing denunciation of white supremacay. Nevertheless, there are some barriers to blaming Trump for anti-Semitic acts… [read post]
27 Aug 2018, 10:23 am
Ratified 150 years ago, the 14th Amendment has been called America's "Second Founding." The Bill of Rights provides crucial liberty protections against the federal government, but it is the 14thAmendment that provides federal protection against state and local governments taking freedoms away. On September 21st, the Institute for Justice and the Liberty and Law Center at Antonin Scalia Law School will co-host a Symposium to bring together legal scholars, historians, and litigators to… [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 12:04 pm
David Bernstein will also be signing his new book, Classified. [read post]
14 Aug 2011, 9:12 am
" "This was a trademark that never should've been issued," David Bernstein, attorney [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 8:05 pm
the elite defense bar with regard to the law of expert testimony… not a happy history” [David [read post]
8 Aug 2009, 9:01 am
Here's one of the offending commercials: At the Volokh Conspiracy, David Bernstein challenges [read post]
30 Apr 2015, 9:05 pm
’s gun sweeps] David Bernstein, who has done so much to enrich our understanding of Lochner [read post]
