🧵My paper "The Warrant Exception that Isn't: FISA Section 702, 'Defensive' Searches, and the Fourth Amendment" (@AmULRev, 2025) is now on SSRN.
Are warrantless "defensive" searches for Americans' communications constitutional? Short answer: Nope. 1/25
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We're excited to welcome our newest faculty members to the Widener Law Commonwealth team.
Get to know the faculty dedicated to inspiring, challenging, and supporting our students in their legal education here: commonwealthlaw.widener.edu/…#WidenerLawCW#WLC#WidenerPride
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ALT Photo of Noah Chauvin, a man wearing a white shirt with a checkered suit coat and glasses.
ALT Photo of Guadalupe Luna, a woman wearing a black button down shirt with a black suit jacket. She is wearing glasses and has long black hair.
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Happy to see my new colleague Noah Chauvin at the AALS Workshop for New Law School Teachers in Washington, DC. A big welcome to all the new professors! x.com/LWritingProud/status/1…
This week, we are conferencing with our Legal Methods students to review the last writing assignment they completed. We meet on Zoom, which allows us to share their document on the screen and review it together. It also allows them to record the conference for future reference.
This week we are introducing our students to analogical reasoning. One thing we stress is the importance of explicitly comparing the facts from cases to the facts of their case. If you teach analogical reasoning, what's one thing you highlight for your students?
Law review editors, if you're reviewing article submissions, remember, short is good! People actually read short articles. Don't be discouraged from accepting articles just because they're concise.
To all my former students taking the bar exam this week: Remember to smile, hold your head up high, and walk into that testing room with all the confidence in the world. You've got this!
Thanks @earthviii and @MEGAN_BISCO for all of your work as Academic Success Fellows in TAP - Legal Methods! We are grateful for ur dedication to the TAP class!
New on the Forum: Prof. @djsziff argues that a new Bluebook rule, which requires authors to disclose when a cited case has an enslaved person as a party or the property at issue, belongs in the Bluepages (for practitioners) to fully serve the policy goals behind the rule. 1/2
Promoting diversity within our association is one of our core values. Our Equal Professional Opportunity Committee oversees the CAMP Diversity Initiative that supports minority law students with paid internships each summer. Learn more about the EPOC here: dcba-pa.org/about-us/diversi…
Liz Simcox, Coordinator of Externships & Adjunct Professor, will be a panelist at today's Public Defender Association of Pennsylvania Chief Defender Conference. Professor Simcox is sharing her expertise related to hiring and interns.
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Excited to begin teaching today at my new school #WidenerCW Law School! Can’t wait to meet my #Evidence students (on Zoom) and do my best to make this term a great learning experience for them. #WidenerPride.
Ready, set, go! Prof. Sholtis's latest article is in print! In it she explains how to get students ready, professors set, and both going through a live critique.