UPDATE: Following court order, UC has posted the UCLA settlement proposal on its website: ucop.edu/communicatio...

👇🏾

Inspiration and a road map from my colleague Kate Andrias. The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Now👇🏾

With contributions from @olatij.bsky.social @genevievelakier.bsky.social @dorfonlaw.bsky.social @jamalgreene.bsky.social @kendraserra.bsky.social @kateruane.bsky.social @evelyndouek.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social & others

A series of short posts from leading scholars about the constraints the First Amendment imposes on the government's authority to impose conditions on federal funding. Seems relevant! This is a @knightcolumbia.org series from earlier this year. knightcolumbia.org/research/fed...

This morning, members of the Knight Institute’s leadership team published a critical analysis of Columbia University’s settlement agreement with the Trump administration. Read the full analysis here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

@olatij.bsky.social on how the admin is contorting Title VI (also at issue in Harvard v. HHS) and the SFFA ruling in an effort to assert power over federally funded institutions: knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-str...

I read an interesting, related law review article once, coauthored by @olatij.bsky.social, that really got into the fraudulence of Dobbs' language about democracy & women's electoral power, and the deficiencies in the Court's view of political equality scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Read the first response from Columbia law professors Kate Andrias, Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Suzanne Goldberg, @jamalgreene.bsky.social, @olatij.bsky.social, Jeremy Kessler, Gillian Metzger, and David Pozen. knightcolumbia.org/blog/a-title...

Excellent piece from our Board Chair @olatij.bsky.social on the weaponization of Title VI and how attacks on racial equity are unmoored from what the Supreme Court actually held in SFFA.

This is a great essay by @olatij.bsky.social, and worth reading alongside Trump's "proclamation" restricting foreign visas at Harvard, which cites (among other things) the university's purported non-compliance with the Supreme Court's decision in the SFFA case.

And now @olatij.bsky.social on the Trump admin’s distortion of SFFA v Harvard. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-str...

The great @olatij.bsky.social writes for our @knightcolumbia.org series on federal funding & the First Am, about how SFFA and Title VI are being stretched far beyond their intended reach in service of Trump’s attacks on universities.

Last week I promoted my essay about conditional funding, the First Amendment, and academic freedom on the Knight Institute website. I've posted the same essay on my blog, now with a link to some of the other essays that have come in. I'm looking forward to a day discussing these issues tomorrow.

A helpful and compelling piece on all that the disparate impact EO gets wrong.

The PI ruling is here. www.aclu.org/documents/pr...

Enjoined on vagueness and first amendment grounds (and more). www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Remember the 15 years of investigation, hearings, administrative guidance it took to revoke the tax exemption of schools with written policies prohibiting admission of black students and forbidding interracial dating? I wrote about Goldsboro and Bob Jones here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....

RSVP deadline tomorrow, Wed Apr 2, to hold your spot! Livestream link on day of to those who register.

An illuminating analysis from @olatij.bsky.social who has studied Title VI for thirty years.

This will be amazing!! RSVP now to hold your spot- 6 brilliant constitutional law and history scholars discussing how the stories we tell about the past shape our future. MCLE credit available. @acslaw.bsky.social @marthasjones.bsky.social @olatij.bsky.social @fpeterson.bsky.social

Thanks to Kate Andrias, Jessica Bulman-Pozen, @jamalgreene.bsky.social, @olatij.bsky.social, Jeremy Kessler, Gillian Metzger, and David Pozen for writing this.

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

PUBLICATION - Dans @liberation.fr, j'ai publié aujourd'hui une tribune sur la crise constitutionnelle aux Etats-Unis : existe-t-elle ? Quelles affaires faut-il suivre pour s'en apercevoir ? Peut-on dire comme certains que c'est du "business as usual" ? (spoiler:non) www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Spoke with @wamu.org’s 1A along with Erica Green and @profjeffries.bsky.social. 👇🏾 the1a.org/segments/don...

I appreciate this re-amplification by @ilrreview.bsky.social though I understand the political climate at the state level is harder for labor and civil rights than when I wrote this several years ago

Timely!

LISTEN: Judge Coughenour condemns Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship. It is “apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore…for political or personal gain.” Part 1:

Enjoyed this chance to learn from @bmluse.bsky.social and Wesley Lowery. Ignore my lack of Grammys knowledge at the end. Did DEI D.I.E.? Welcome to a new kind of 'civil rights' era

Not hard to decipher the reasons for singling out environmental justice. Found this piece by @dfarber1950.bsky.social helpful in delineating why it’s wrong for law and policy reasons. (And I would add, immoral.) legal-planet.org/2025/01/23/t...

Rather, the implementing regs required federal contractor employers to take affirmative steps to make sure they're not using federal dollars to discriminate. For example, posting jobs widely, and conducting regular analyses of their workforces and applicant pools. /2

Some more thoughts on the rescission of EO 11246, which is tied up in a misrepresentation of what the Order required. The Order required companies to "take affirmative action to ensure" nondiscrimination. That is not "affirmative action" as that term has come to mean- i.e., racial preferences. /1