Professor DiPippa’s Scholarship & Service

Brawner, Steve. ACLU preparing legal challenge to abortion ban. Talk Business & Politics (May 11, 2021). DiPippa said the Supreme Court historically has been reluctant to make decisions that create major social changes unless it has no other options, and it particularly doesn’t want to undo decisions on which people have relied.

King, Ashlei. Interview. Good Day Arkansas. Fox. Fox16, Little Rock, AR (Jan. 29, 2021). Two senators are looking at the possibility of censuring former President Trump instead of going through an impeachment trial. But is it constitutional? Ashlei King talked with Dean Emeritus John DiPippa from the Bowen School of Law to find out.

Interview. Good Day Arkansas. Fox. Fox16, Little Rock. AR (Jan. 5, 2021). DiPippa discussed what will likely happen Wednesday when several lawmakers are expected to object to the Electoral College results showing Joe Biden as the next president.

Lockwood, Frank. State GOP not signing on to idea of vote ‘delay’. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (July 31, 2020). “We have never turned our back on democracy, so it’s shocking to hear a president even contemplate doing that,” he said. “We’ve seen a whole lot worse in this country and we’ve moved ahead with elections.”

Professor DiPippa has been appointed to Little Rock Police Department Review Committee for the 2020- term. The nine-member committee will conduct an independent review of the Little Rock Police Department and highlighted several ongoing policy changes in the agency.

Lockwood, Frank. Does First Amendment allow assemblies? Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (April 11, 2020). “If limiting groups of people is the only way, or perhaps the only effective way, to accomplish one of the most important things that a government can accomplish, then the government can do it,” said DiPippa.

DiPippa, John M., Nuclear Weapons, the War Powers, and the Constitution: Mutually Assured Destruction, 71 South Carolina Law Rev. (2019) Dean Emeritus DiPippa discusses the implications the original meaning of the proper constitutional distribution of the war power as it relates to the use of nuclear weapons in order to provide a framework to answer … Dean Emeritus DiPippa published an article on the distribution of war power

Dean Emeritus John DiPippa has been appointed to Mayor Frank Scott’s Mobility Sub-Committee until March 15, 2019. This committee was one of eight that will help set an agenda for Mayor Scott’s time in office.

Beiner, Theresa; DiPippa, John;  Oliver, Philip; Silverstein, Joshua. Conversation on Kavanaugh. Bowen Chapter of the American Constitution Society, Little, Rock, AR (Oct. 8, 2018). Dean Theresa Beiner, Dean Emeritus John DiPippa, and Professors Phil Oliver and Josh Silverstein participated in a panel discussion regarding the confirmation hearing of Justice Kavanaugh. Issues discussed included the impact … Panel of Bowen professors discuss the confirmation hearing of Justice Kavanaugh

Monteith, David. Both Sides See Positives For Arkansas In Supreme Court Ruling. UA Little Rock Public Radio (June 5, 2018).