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This follows the campaign’s suit in New York state court against The New York Times . Meanwhile, Devin Nunes is up to seven lawsuits against various persons, bovines, and business entities. This rash of lawsuits has many First Amendment advocates calling for more states and the United States to enact anti-SLAPP statutes. These suits represent the modern analogue to Southern officials’ defamation campaign against northern media outlets in the 1950s and ’60s. But I have been slow coming to the "anti-SLAPP is necessary" position; if the protections of New York Times were sufficient to stop the barrage 60 years ago, they should be sufficient now. Continue reading "The procedure of frivolous political defamation actions" Posted by Howard Wasserman on March 3, 2020 at 04:35 PM in Civil Procedure , First Amendment , Howard Wasserman , Judicial Process , Law and Politics | Permalink | Comments (3) Monday, March 02, 2020 28th Annual Rothgerber Conference: Women’s Enfranchisement The Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law will sponsor the 28th Annual Ira C. Rohgerber Conference , Women’s Enfranchisement: Beyond the 19 th Amendment , on Friday, April 3, 2020. Continue reading "28th Annual Rothgerber Conference: Women’s Enfranchisement" Posted by Howard Wasserman on March 2, 2020 at 10:27 PM in Constitutional thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) Entry Level Hiring: The 2020 Report - Call for Information Time once again for the entry level hiring report. I will gather the following information for tenure-track, clinical, or legal writing full-time entry-level hires: Basic Information: Name, Hiring School, JD Institution, JD Year of Graduation Other Degrees: Type of Degree, Degree Granting Institution, Degree Subject Fellowship, VAP, or Visiting Professorship: Institution and Type (e.g., VAP, name of fellowship, etc.) Clerkship: Court (e.g., 9th Circuit, Texas Supreme Court, etc.) Areas of Speciality (up to four) (if you are a clinical or LRW hire, please list this as your first Area of Specialty) Type of Position: Tenure Track or Non-Tenure Track (if you are clinical or LRW and also tenure-track, please indicate this) The information will be aggregated on this spreadsheet (which is reproduced below and which you can view and download by clicking on this link ); scroll across to see all of the information that will be aggregated. Please leave the information in the comments, and, to protect those on the job market, please sign the comment with your real name. (Ideally, the reporting person would be either the hired individual or someone from the hiring committee at the hiring school.) If you would like to email information instead of posting it, please send it to Sarah Lawsky at sarah *dot* lawsky *at* law *dot* northwestern *dot* edu. Remember: you can’t edit the spreadsheet yourself . To get your information into the spreadsheet, you must either post in the comments or email me. If you see any errors, or if I have incorporated your information into the spreadsheet but you are not yet ready to make it public, please don’t hesitate to email me, and I will take care of the problem as soon as I can. Clarifications: The list does not include people who were full-time non-tenure track clinicians who are now moving to a tenure track job at a different school, as these don’t seem like true entry-level hires to me. This is the situation where a person is at a school that does not provide tenure to clinicians, and then moves to a school that does provide tenure to clinicians. The list does include people who had a non-professor job in a law school and then moved to a professor job that was tenure track. Thus a person may have worked at a law school for many years, but still be considered an entry level hire. To indicate this situation, I will put their previous job at a law school in the "fellowship" category, and note "non-TT to TT" in the "Notes" category. This is not to indicate that this isn’t an entry-level hire, but rather to give information about the nature of the item listed as a fellowship. (I.e., not a temporary position, as fellowships usually are.) Other links: This report follows in the tradition of Larry Solum’s excellent work over many years. 2019 initial post, 2019 spreadsheet, 2019 report (with graphs). 2018 initial post, 2018 spreadsheet, 2018 report (with graphs). 2017 initial post, 2017 spreadsheet, 2017 report (with graphs). 2016 initial post, 2016 spreadsheet, 2016 report (with graphs). 2015 initial post, 2015 spreadsheet, 2015 report (with graphs). 2014 initial post, 2014 spreadsheet, 2014 report (with graphs). 2013 initial post, 2013 spreadsheet, 2013 report (with graphs). 2012...