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Happy and engaged Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day, everyone! Some promising news first: despite the abundance of misinformation, Americans are aware of the fact that our planet is warming up […]

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Eradicating sexual violence

Last Tuesday, at the invitation of Student Government, I participated in a town hall meeting addressing the university’s continued commitment to sexual violence prevention. The […]

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Questions about recent law school hires

Over the last few days I have received a number of complaints about our law school’s decision to recruit U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh […]

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Decluttering our work at Mason

I haven’t escaped the Marie Kondo decluttering fever. My drawers are emptier and my closet walkable again. Parting with bags of clothes was less painful […]

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Racism on campus: Learning from old yearbooks

Lest we try to brush off the controversy over blackface photos in college yearbooks as a problem of other academic institutions in more southern latitudes, […]