Erwin Chemerinsky - Wikipedia
Erwin Chemerinsky (born May 14, 1953) is an American legal scholar known for his studies of U.S. constitutional law and federal civil procedure. Since 2017, Chemerinsky has been the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. Previously, he was the inaugural dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law from 2008 to 2017. [1] [2]
The Broken-Hearted Lover: Erwin Chemerinsky's Romantic …
Smitten by the Court, Chemerinsky was blind to its historical role as a protector of privilege, and its structural limitations as an agent of progressive social change. Placing the Court on a pedestal, he abstracted it from the culture and the society in which it operates.
In One Key Area, (the Chief) Justice Is Indeed Blind
Mar 19, 2004 · In a country dedicated to the rule of law, it is disheartening to see a Supreme Court justice ignore basic conflict-of- interest principles.
Chemerinsky: 'Never in my life have I seen or felt the antisemitism …
Oct 30, 2023 · Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, is calling on campus officials across the country to denounce “blatant antisemitism.”
Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism
Jun 6, 2023 · Noted legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky gives a comprehensive analysis of the problems that make originalism unworkable as a method of constitutional interpretation. He argues that the framers themselves never intended constitutional interpretation to be inflexible and shows how it is often impossible to know what the “original intent” of any ...
An Obituary for Originalism: On Erwin Chemerinsky’s “Worse …
Nov 23, 2022 · Chemerinsky frames his attack on originalism by describing five problems that he believes render the theory a “dangerous fallacy.” First is the “Epistemological Problem”: “For the vast majority...
More From Erwin Chemerinsky – Shall Not Be Questioned
Mar 10, 2014 · I actually find him pretty tolerable on most First Amendment issues, though like most liberals he has an enormous ideological blind spot as concerns political speech (that is, he will not accept the reality that a limit on how much you can spend to exercise a right is ipso facto a limit on the exercise of that right).
Erwin Chemerinsky - UC Berkeley Law
Erwin Chemerinsky became the 13th Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. Prior to assuming this position, from 2008-2017, he was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California ...
The Case Against the Supreme Court by Erwin Chemerinsky - Goodreads
Sep 25, 2014 · Erwin Chemerinsky's The Case Against the Supreme Court is a smart introduction to the structural problems that plague the United States Supreme Court. Unlike some Supreme Court abolitionists, Chemerinsky argues the Supreme Court remains necessary, even if the court's history, with a few notable exceptions, is best understood as a failure.
Race, Racism, and American Law (Casebook Series)
Jan 1, 2004 · Among the topics discussed in his treatment of race and American law are the use of "color-blind constitutionalism" to attack affirmative action; the use of history to legitimate American racial legal policy; developments in the areas of public accommodations, housing, and employment; discrimination in the administration of justice (including ...
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