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Professor James Brudney talked to Bloomberg Law about proposed legislation that would stop companies from getting tax deductions for “union busting” activities. These tax code changes would apply to what is identifiable as an anti-union practice. And it includes things that are not yet determined to be unlawful. Read “Lawmakers, Unions Eye Tax Code Change to Advance Labor Agenda” on Bloomberg Law.

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Professor Julie Suk’s new book, After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women & What to Do About It, was released today. Published by the University of California Press, After Misogyny explores why feminism is essential to constitutional democracy, and examines efforts to end male over-empowerment around the world. Professor Suk discussed the central themes of the book and how they relate to current legal events on the Constitutional Crisis Hotline podcast, which she cohosts with Professor Jed Shugerman, along with guest Deb Tuerkheimer. She also joined Samuel Moyne to discuss the book on Digging A Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast.…

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Professor Bruce Green weighs in on the debate over the constitutionality of closed door trials as it pertains the recent case People v. Dwight Reid. The very premise of implicit bias is that it’s not overt, so there is no way to say whether judicial conduct was or was not motivated by implicit racial bias or another cognitive bias. Rules of procedure have to factor in the possibility that judges, being human, have biases of which they themselves may not be aware,” Green said. “A trial judge must do the best she can to rest her decision on the facts,…

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