Serena Mayeri

Colleges Must Reject Trump’s ‘Compact’ To Protect Our Democracy
The White House’s proposition violates the very freedoms that make American higher education the envy of the world.

By Rick Garnett, Serena Mayeri, Amanda Shanor, Ilya Somin and Alexander Volokh

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Judge orders Trump administration to stop immigration arrests without probable cause in Southern California | CNN Politics A federal judge on Friday found that the Department of Homeland Security has been making stops and arrests in Los Angeles immigration raids without probable cause and ordered the department to stop de...

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Legal historian traces history of ‘marital privilege’ in American law | Penn Today Penn Carey Law’s Serena Mayeri’s new book highlights how legal battles against ‘marital supremacy’ advanced equality and the challenges that remain.

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Can't wait to read this book by the fabulous @serenamayeri.bsky.social! Serena's work is always fascinating, illuminating and original. Congrats Serena and can't wait to read! www.amazon.com/Marital-Priv...

Opinion | Trump’s fake emergencies are the real crisis His vague national security claims chill speech and action far beyond his individual targets.

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Championing Change Dorothy E. Roberts recognized among TIME’s 2025 ‘The Closers’ for her advocacy against systemic inequities in child welfare.

TIME has named Dorothy E. Roberts to its 2025 The Closers list, honoring 25 Black leaders working to end racial equity gaps. A renowned legal scholar, Roberts has spent her career exposing systemic inequities in in health and social service systems. www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/17...

2025 Lindback Award Prof. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08 receives the 2025 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08, Golkin Family Professor and Professor of Psychology, has received the 2025 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching—Penn’s highest teaching honor for standing faculty.
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It’s sad that it requires courage right now for a university president to file something as straightforward as this, but it does. Thanks to Tufts University President Sunil Kumar for filing this. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

Opinion | America’s Most Powerful Law Firms Won’t Stand Up to Trump Bowing to Trump won’t protect their businesses and clients.

Great piece by @debpearlstein.bsky.social - & the latest EO targeting Jenner & Block should convince any wavering firms that commitment to the rule of law & interest in self-preservation run in the same direction here - they have to challenge these orders

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Here’s the end of the opening statement I gave yesterday morning before a hearing on recent rulings against the Trump administration - via @democrats-judiciary.house.gov & @raskin.house.gov

Columbia AAUP chapter on the administration's unprecedented assault on Columbia U and higher ed generally: "At this fraught moment we must all stand together against the external assault on our institution."
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Opinion | Musk Is Not Stopping at DOGE Elon Musk isn’t stopping at DOGE.

Early voting in the election to fill an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court - a crucial race Musk-affiliated PACs are spending millions on - starts today. My take:

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Trump’s Crackdown on “Antisemitism” is Making Jews Less Safe The Trump administration’s cynical use of antisemitism to justify a crackdown that will endanger many Jews.

For @newrepublic.com, I wrote about the administration is cynically using the issue of antisemitism to attack higher ed, free speech/assembly, and due process, how some Jews sincerely support this, and why they are wrong

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Jews Demand: Release Mahmoud Khalil We refuse to be used by Trump to enact his authoritarian agenda.

Highlighting some efforts afoot. Feel free to add others. www.bendthearc.us/release_khal...

Trump’s Crackdown on “Antisemitism” is Making Jews Less Safe The Trump administration’s cynical use of antisemitism to justify a crackdown that will endanger many Jews.

Jewish leaders need to stand up against unconstitutional & illegal activities that violate rights & erode democracy. @emilyctamkin.bsky.social on why none of these actions help fight antisemitism. Don't let political rulers act as if they do. newrepublic.com/article/1925...

Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.

In case there was any debate about the false pretense of keeping Jews safe, Title VI compliance will soon be a thing of the past: www.propublica.org/article/educ...

Proud to be one of the OVER 2000 Jewish faculty who will not allow Judaism to become weaponized by Trump to destroy universities, attack free speech, and deport students. We say: NOT IN OUR NAME.

Please share, please sign:

I am proud to be one of more than 2000+ Jewish faculty, students & staff who signed this stmt to make clear that the targeting & deportation of pro-Palestinian activists does not keep us safe, and cannot be justified in our name. We are only safe when all of us are. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Knight Institute statement. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

"To our knowledge, no major university leadership has publicly denounced the attack on Columbia or Mahmoud Khalil. In the face of an open assault on a peer Ivy League institution and basic principles of free speech, Harvard remains silent." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Mahmoud Khalil Don’t fool yourself into thinking it will stop with Mahmoud Khalil.

A super important piece by @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social

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The Trump admin's thuggish letter to Columbia is garbage, legally speaking. The admin has no statutory authority to make these demands, and many of them are unconstitutional. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

Statement on Recent Events The online targeting and harassment of the LPE Project’s Deputy Director, Helyeh Doutaghi, is part of a broader environment of speech repression, particularly of anti-war and pro-Palestinian views.

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I grew up under a terrifying authoritarian regime. Mahmoud Khalil's arrest is right out of their playbook Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE reminds one professor at Columbia University, Khalil's alma mater, or her childhood in authoritarian Romania.

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Opinion | The Trump administration is gutting universities’ best tools to fight antisemitism The White House has put schools in a “can’t win” situation.

I call bullshit: Jewish safety is pretext. Make no mistake, the Trump administration is using antisemitism as an excuse to obliterate Title VI, undermine civil rights and incapacitate higher education.
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