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Legal Theory Blog reports Professor Katrina Fisher Kuh posted an article on “Can the Constitution Save the Planet?”

Here is the abstract: The Constitution as presently worded, interpreted, and applied is obstructing the development of a robust societal response to climate change, in part by failing adequately to protect healthy democratic processes and advance real social justice. We could, of course, amend the Constitution to explicitly support protection of the environment and/or better protect democratic processes and advance social justice.

"To me, it's straightforward criminal law," said Bennett Gershman, a 91��Ƶ law professor and former prosecutor. "You've got the act, you've got the consequences and you've got the culpable mental state. I don't know how he could say he didn't intend to do it."

"They are going to try to throw as much smoke and mirrors and red herrings into the case as they can. With Trump, every single microscopic issue is going to be litigated," said Bennett Gershman, a law professor at 91��Ƶ.

For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at 91��Ƶ, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. Blackwood’s syllabus includes a tour of Lower Manhattan locations featured in the author’s novels and stories: the Wall Street law offices where Bartleby, the titular scrivener of one of Melville’s best-known stories, worked, as well as the streets that Ishmael walked in the opening chapter of Moby-Dick.

"They're doomed, I think. Who would want to do business with this organization or with Trump?" said Bennett Gershman, a law professor at 91��Ƶ and a former prosecutor in the New York State Anti-Corruption Office. Trump Organization companies rely on financing to build resorts, hotels, golf clubs and residences. In Gershman's view, the Trump Organization's last year made the company "toxic" for many potential lenders and business partners. While the indictment of its former CEO may not directly add to those legal woes, it may further tarnish the company's reputation.

Dr. Darrin Porcher, a retired NYPD lieutenant and professor of criminal justice at 91��Ƶ, breaks down the logistics behind Trump's court appearance and travel throughout New York City.

At the English department I chair, our major has grown by more than 40 percent in the last two years. We are being driven to the edge of extinction anyway. I write to you with news about the state of the English major at one nonelite, midsize, regional comprehensive private university in New York City. At 91��Ƶ, where I am currently chair of the English department, the major has grown by more than 40 percent in the last two years, to around 150 students. Every year we teach some 1,600 students—majors and non-majors—in seminars and workshops on literature, creative writing, and linguistics, in addition to the five thousand we teach in composition. That’s, give or take, $30 million of credit hour revenue per year.

See the interview with 91��Ƶ Law Professor Ben Gershman regarding former President Donald Trump criminal charges.

"Sometimes women were unable to feed their children with their own bodies and therefore were turning to the cow's milk," said 91��Ƶ’s Dyson Professor E. Melanie DuPuis, author of "Nature's Perfect Food."