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  • ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 6

    Scholarship, Teaching, and Protest

    The preceding protest stems from Professor Michael McConnell’s use of an unredacted historical quote containing the N-word in one of his classes at Stanford…

  • ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 6

    Statement by Michael McConnell to Stanford Law School Community

    On Wednesday, in connection with the debates over ratification of the Constitution in Virginia, I quoted an ugly racial epithet used by Patrick Henry.…

  • ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 6

    Statement by the Undersigned Editors of Volume 97

    On May 27, 2020—two days after the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota—professor and former judge Michael McConnell, the author of…

  • CommentaryVol. 91 · Iss. 1

    Salvaging the 2013 Federal Law Clerk Hiring Season

    Ten years ago, the judiciary instituted the Federal Law Clerk Hiring Plan, an employment system meant to regularize hiring in which most circuit and…

  • CommentaryVol. 98 · Iss. 1

    Acknowledgments as a Window Into Legal Academia

    Legal scholarship in the United States is an oddity—an institution built on student editorship, a lack of peer review, and a dramatically high proportion…