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As Hurricane Florence moved across the Atlantic in early September of 2018, state officials issued evacuation orders for communities along the Virginia and Carolina coasts. The writer and law professor Jedediah Purdy, who was teaching at Duke at the time, was situated well inland, where the Atlantic coastal plain meets the Piedmont, and in his new book, “This Land Is Our Land,” he writes about his own surge of disaster preparation.
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Jedediah Purdy Has an Idea That Could Save Us From Capitalism and the Climate Crisis
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Jedediah Purdy’s 2015 book After Nature is about what we talk about when we talk about nature. Breaking the concept apart—historically, legally, philosophically, even aesthetically—Purdy makes us see that there’s nothing “natural” about nature, that the world is what humanity has made it. . . . Purdy is currently a law professor at Columbia University.
Will the US supreme court uphold basic protections against discrimination?
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In short, three decades after the supreme court recognized that workplace decisions based on stereotyped views about men and women run contrary to our sex-discrimination law we may be on the cusp of taking a giant step backwards.
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- Suzanne Goldberg Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law
Argument analysis: Justices seem hesitant to award attorney’s fees to government in litigation challenging denial of patent applications
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The first morning of the term showed a welcome moment of camaraderie on the bench, as justices from both sides of the ideological spectrum seemed to join in their skepticism of the government’s position in Peter v. NantKwest.
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- Ronald Mann Albert E. Cinelli Enterprise Professor of Law
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If the race for powerful A.I. is indeed a race among civilizations for control of the future, the United States and European nations should be spending at least 50 times the amount they do on public funding of basic A.I. research.
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- Timothy Wu Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology
Executive privilege is vitally important. But not at the expense of national security.
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By Philip Bobbitt
Executive privilege remains crucial. But the failure to vindicate such careful and rigorous efforts to follow the whistleblower rules would only lead to workarounds and more-reckless leaks.
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- Philip C. Bobbitt Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence
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Columbia Law School Center on Corporate Governance director John Coffee weighs in on 'Your World.'
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- John C. Coffee, Jr. Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law
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Columbia Law School professor Elizabeth Emens calls this work "life admin," and wrote a book about it by the same name. "Life admin is all the invisible office work that steals our time," Emens explains. "It's the kind of work that managers and secretaries get paid in an office to do but that we all do invisibly, and for free, in our own lives."
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- Elizabeth F. Emens Thomas M. Macioce Professor of Law
Can Someone Be Fired for Being Gay? The Supreme Court Will Decide
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“Now that we don’t have Kennedy on the court, it would be a stretch to find a fifth vote in favor of any of these claims that are coming to the court,” said Katherine Franke, a law professor at Columbia and the author of “Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality.”
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- Katherine M. Franke James L. Dohr Professor of Law
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By Tim Wu
Cynicism in the face of pious corporate proclamations can be healthy. But there is increasing reason to think that the virtuous corporation is not an oxymoron but a necessity.
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- Timothy Wu Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology