David Pozen

May 10, 2024 | yahoo.com | David Pozen

Is 4/30 the new 4/20? On April 30, the Justice Department announced that it is recommending a new status for marijuana under federal law. The attorney general’s sign-off all but ensures that the drug will be moved in the coming months from Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act, which imposes a complete criminal ban, to the less restrictive Schedule 3.

May 10, 2024 | lawfaremedia.org | David Pozen |Jen Patja

Jack Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School, co-founder of Lawfare, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Before coming to Harvard, Professor Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004, and Special Counsel to the Department of Defense from 2002-2003.

May 9, 2024 | lpeproject.org | David Pozen |Aziz Rana

This post is part of a symposium on Aziz Rana’s The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them. Read the rest of the posts here. ***Aziz Rana’s The Constitutional Bind upends the standard story of constitutional veneration in not one but two ways. Against the notion that “Americans have treated the United States Constitution . . .

May 7, 2024 | lpeproject.org | David Pozen

This post, originally published at Balkinization, is part of series looking at the law and political economy of higher education. ***Crisis can be clarifying. Recent events on campuses across the country have forced many of us to look more closely at how our own universities work. I have no special insight into most aspects of the Columbia protests or the administration’s response.

May 6, 2024 | balkin.blogspot.com | David Pozen

Front page Balkin.com Balkinizationan unanticipated consequence ofJack M.