An excerpt from yesterday’s post by my UCLA colleague Stephen Bainbridge:
Last week, I signed an open letter to the Delaware legislature by a group of corporate law academics addressing aspects of Delaware SB 21, which was then pending before the Delaware House.
This week, as you may have seen, 80 out of the ~120 Harvard law school faculty signed a group letter protesting certain Trump administration actions–especially those targeting law firms–as being detrimental to the rule of law.
Predictably, where Harvard leads, the rest of legal education follows. I hear rumors of similar letters in the works at some law schools or among faculty at multiple law schools.
I have been asked to sign some. But I’m not going to do so.
First, however, let me emphasize that I share the signer’s concerns about the way the Trump administration is punishing law firms of which the administration disapproves. The use of unilateral executive action…
