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Weekly Faculty in the News, 8/22

A roundup of faculty appearances in news sources and media from the last week.

8/19 – Professor Evelyn Brody was quoted in a USA Today article on the ongoing IRS scandal (“IRS assailed from all sides for lack of transparency“).

In addition, check out the following blog posts written by faculty this week:

8/20 – “Two Post-Filarsky Private Individual Immunity Decisions in the Circuits,” posted by Sheldon Nahmod at Nahmod Law. Professor Nahmod unpacks two circuit decisions that deal with private individual immunity after the Supreme Court’s decision in Filarsky v. Delia, which ruled that “an individual hired by the government to work for it is indeed protected by qualified immunity, even though that individual does not work for the government on a permanent or full-time basis.”

8/20 – “Coming Up At The Court – McCutcheon v. FEC,” posted at ISCOTUSnow. Professor Carolyn Shapiro previews an upcoming Supreme Court case which “challenges a limitation on the total amount of campaign donations an individual can give during any election cycle.”

8/21 – “Teaching contract drafting,” posted by Adrian Walters at The Walters Way. In this installation of posts on the teaching of contract drafting, Professor Walters ruminates on how to design a successful “outcome-based” curriculum.

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