A nice (and amusing) post here about why George Mason was the only law school to submit a brief in support of the military in the Solomon Amendment case.

(While the other 'elite' law professors were summarily shot down.)

From the NYT article:

On Monday, the best minds in the legal business struck out. The vote was 8-to-0 against them — a shutout, a rout, a humiliation. It is one thing for liberal academics to fail to persuade conservative justices like Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. But the law professors did not produce so much as a sympathetic word from liberal justices like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David H. Souter and John Paul Stevens. (The newest justice, Samuel A. Alito Jr., did not participate.)

And if the result was not embarrassing enough, there was also the tone of the court's unanimous decision, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. In patient cadences, the kind you use in addressing a slightly dull child ...."

Here is a piece by George Mason Law Professor David Bernstein on the matter, and his post on the Volokh Conspiracy blog.

Also, a piece in The Weekly Standard by Professor Peter Berkowitz, also of Mason.