Isabelle Zhang

Although the First Amendment is commonly associated with the freedom of speech, it is just as much about the right to listen: when someone’s ability to speak freely is suppressed, the public is robbed of their right to hear and receive information. A recent lawsuit filed against the Trump administration underscores this often-overlooked dimension of the First Amendment and brings it to the forefront of contemporary legal debate.On March 25, legal and academic associations representing university...

On Monday, Delaware Judge Kathaleen McCormick upheld her decision to rescind Elon Musk’s Tesla compensation package, despite shareholders voting in June to restore it. Before the ruling, the CEO of Tesla was set to be paid $50 million in stock options. His pay package, approved by shareholders in 2018, requires the company to meet 12 revnue milestones the company in order for him to receive compensation. Additionally, Musk would only be paid in Tesla stock options — valued only at $2.6 million a...

On November 8, the American Bar Association (ABA) restored references to “race and ethnicity” to its revision of the Diversity and Inclusion standard — one of the accreditation requirements for law schools in the United States — after receiving backlash over the removal of the terms in a previous draft.  The ABA began revising its diversity standard in 2023 in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which stipulated that affirmative action policies...