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Bolstering U.S. Chip Manufacturing

Professor Alan O. Sykes discusses the $280 billion “Chips and Science Act,” aimed at building up America’s chip manufacturing and developing other technological innovations. 
 

Access to Counsel

In this opinion essay in Bloomberg Law, Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom discusses how licensing certain non-lawyers to provide basic legal assistance could help alleviate California's access to counsel challenges.

Constitutional Politics

Former SLS Dean Larry Kramer discusses the collapse of liberal constitutional politics: why it happened, what we can learn from it, and what a renewed, progressive vision of the Constitution could look like with Ezra Klein of the New York Times.

Electoral Reform Act

Professor Michael McConnell weighs in on the Senate’s bipartisan Electoral Count Act reform bill.

Death Penalty

Professor John Donohue and Michael Romano, director of the SLS Three Strikes Project, discuss the death penalty in California in this San Francisco Chronicle article.
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Emerging Issues in Technology and the Law: A View from the Bench and Hot Topics in Patents, Antitrust and the Life Sciences

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