Podcast Episode · Heels In The Courtroom · September 23 · 36m

The Supreme Court of Ohio celebrates the first anniversary of its Women in Law exhibit, a lasting tribute to the extraordinary women who have shaped Ohio's legal history and inspired future generation...

Students’ use of AI is teaching them a knack for cutting corners, a disdain for community rules, and an assumption that a spirit of integrity is the reserve of suckers and wimps.

Voters approved state constitutional protections for reproductive rights. Now, courts are interpreting what they mean — and not just in cases about abortion.

OverviewArtificial Intelligence is already impacting higher education and the legal profession, and the pace of change appears only to be accelerating. It is thus critical for us to use this moment to...

Abstract. Once the purview of lawyers and exclusively focused on courts and legal doctrine, legal history has become a vibrant, dynamic field that encompas

Portia Pedro (Boston University School of Law) & Adam Steinman (Texas A&M University School of Law) have posted Aggregation and the “Universal” Injunction, 139 Harvard Law Review 1791 (2026) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this Essay, we begin with a brief summary of the CASA decision’s holding regarding the availability of “universal” injunctions. Part II discusses the relationship between remedies and judicial review and the important role that such injunctions play in that regard.

Mila Sohoni (Stanford Law School) has posted Rethinking Remedy Skepticism, 139 Harvard Law Review 1880 (2026) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In a time of “constitutional crisis,” scholars are asking how federal courts can preserve a basic “imperative” of constitutional structure: “[A] system of constitutional remedies adequate to keep government generally within the bounds of law.” But that system has been in jeopardy for decades at the Court’s own hands.

“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”

“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”

The University of Akron School of Law’s moot court team finished as the national finalist at the American Bar Association's (ABA) National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC), held April 11 in Chica...

Millions of women could face new challenges to voting under President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act, which would require voters to prove their citizenship before casting a ballot.The federal legislation would mandate that most Americans show a birth certificate or passport to register to vote. But people with names that don’t match their birth certificate in some instances could have to produce additional documents like a marriage certificate or divorce decree linking their past and current identities.

Today’s Supreme Court justices bristle at the label “politicians in robes,” insisting that they operate above the fray of partisan politics. But for th...

Meet the conservative legal minds telling the Supreme Court to side with Trump.

Amazon.com: The First Woman Judge: The Life and Legacy of Florence Allen: 9780520399600: Thomas, Tracy: Books

Frozen embryos have drawn out a Summit County divorce for years. A novel court ruling could give each side what it is seeking.

Lorren Eldridge, Emily Ireland, and Caroline Derry have published Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline (Hart/Bloomsbury):This book champions the work of women in legal history, and their contributions to both the discipline and feminist activism over nearly two centuries. It considers women in academia, which was, in theory, open to women before they could become lawyers in most European countries. And it considers women working beyond the academy: many studied legal history in other ways; in local history societies, through archival work, and via activism. Women legal historians have been under-recognised or forgotten altogether, even where they made substantial scholarly contributions. In focusing on the work of women in legal history, this book lays the foundations for a transformational reassessment of the discipline. It asks searching questions about what counts as legal history. It demonstrates that work by and about women should appear in our legal history courses, be discussed in our seminars, and be cited in our academic work. If the field of legal history is lively, innovative, and wide-ranging, everyone working in it benefits. By shining a light on undervalued scholarship, and areas which have received insufficient attention, we challenge assumptions in our discipline and advance its methods. Whilst some women were pioneers and worked to change gendered aspects of the law, others led more ordinary lives, disappearing from the gaze of legal history even as they contributed to it. This book tells some of their stories. --Dan Ernst.  TOC after the jump.  Foreword, Erika Rackley (University of Birmingham, UK) 1. Selden's Sister and Women in Legal History, Lorren Eldridge (University of Cambridge, UK), Emma Ireland (University of Liverpool, UK) and Caroline Derry (The Open University, UK) Part I: Methodology and Studying Women in Legal History 2. Unwritten Stories: Recovering and Writing Women's Legal History, Jennifer Aston (Northumbria University UK) 3. Missing Mildred Miles, Christine George (New York University Law Library, USA) Part II: Women Legal Historians in the Academy 4. Rights and Duties of Englishwomen: The Life and Work of Erna Reiss (1888-1974), Feminist Legal Historian, Anne Logan (University of Kent, UK) 5. Aere Perennius: The Life and Legacy of Professor Olivia Robinson, Lisa Cowan (University of Edinburgh, UK) 6. The First Women Scholars in Serbian and Yugoslav Legal History at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, Nina Kršljanin (University of Belgrade, Serbia) 7. Jelena Danilovic: The First Woman to Teach Roman Law in Serbia, Valentina Cvetkovic-Ðordevic (University of Belgrade, Serbia) Part III: Women Legal Historians on the Periphery 8. Madge Easton Anderson: Making and Shaping Legal History from Scotland, Maria Fletcher, Charlie Peevers and Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe (University of Glasgow, UK) 9. Scotland's Representative: Chrystal Macmillan and Suffragist Legal Historical Practice, Charlie Peevers (University of Glasgow, UK) 10. The Marriages of Captain John Campbell of Carrick: How a Wronged Wife Changed English Marriage Law, Deborah Siddoway (Durham University, UK)