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Posts from 2020

    Update: Classes cancelled, resume online no later than March 23
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    Dear Johns Hopkins Students, Faculty, and Staff: I am writing at a critical inflection point in our university’s response to the global COVID-19 epidemic. Our approach to the epidemic has been guided by our commitment to sound public health...
    The Atlantic: Why We Ended Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins
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    When I served as the dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto—Canada’s most selective law school—I would be asked every so often by one of our alumni what preference their children would enjoy when applying. The answer I...
    University in Liberal Democracy
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    Association of American Law Schools Annual MeetingWashington, D.C. Introduction In 1932, an economist, a political scientist, and a lawyer walked into the New York governor’s mansion … I promise this isn’t the start of a bad joke....