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Constitutional Law

Jul. 25, 2022

Five Cases in eight days that have changed what I say to law students about the Supreme Court

Professors like me are revising their lesson plans because so much has changed. Law students are impacted, too. I got an anguished message last week from a 2022 graduate who said “Professor, I spent three years in law school, and in the last few weeks mostly all of what I learned is no longer true.”

Julie A. Werner-Simon

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Email: jawsmedia.la@gmail.com

Julie A. Werner-Simon is a former federal prosecutor, former constitutional law fellow, and currently serves as a law professor (adjunct) at University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, Drexel University's Kline School of Law, and is also a legal analyst at Drexel's LeBow School of Business.

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I am a law professor on both the east and west coasts. I was acting as an informal docent for out-of-town relatives at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Thurs., June 24, when a squib about the Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen, invalidating New York's gun permit law, appeared on my phone screen. It was exactly one month after the gun-slaughtering of children and teachers in Uvalde, Texas.

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