Posted on 09/28/2007 7:25:14 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
HEMPSTEAD NY--The decision by a Long Island law school to invite a disbarred attorney and terrorist sympathizer to teach an ethics seminar may mean those who attend the class receive no credit.
According to the Manhattan Institute's Walter Olsen, Hofstra University's inclusion of radical lawyer Lynne Stewart on the faculty of it's legal ethics seminar may be a violation of New York State rules governing continuing legal education: New York regulations governing continuing legal education...declare in one provision, Part 1500.4b (5), that "Continuing legal education courses or programs to be accredited shall comply with the following guidelines: The course or program shall not be taught by a disbarred attorney, whether the disbarred attorney is the sole presenter or one of several instructors."
Stewart, as reported by Federal Review Tuesday (September 25), was invited to speak despite being sentenced last year to twenty-eight months in prison on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists. As a result, she was automatically disbarred. Her prison sentence has been stayed pending her appeal.
The Hofstra Law School program Stewart is participating in is open to law students and practicing attorneys. Under New York State law, all attorneys are required to take accredited courses in legal ethics on a biennial basis in order to maintain their law license.
According to Hofstra's web site, the enrollment fee for the seminar is $475.00.
Stewart was originally billed by Hofstra as only as a "high profile radical and human rights attorney." However, after news of her teaching gig came under national fire, the University changed its biography of her to read simply "Lynne Stewart, New York, New York. Attorney (disbarred)."
It is unknown at this time whether Hofstra intends to warn participants that Stewart's inclusion may render the class ineligble for continuing legal education credit. The seminar is currently scheduled for October 14-16, on the Hofstra Law School campus, in Hempstead, New York.
Certainly they must make an exception for this treasonous legal scholar, since this dyke is an enemy of free people. The ACLU says denying her freedom of expression in CE courses is unconstitutional.
Sickening.
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If you think it’s ridiculous that she was hired to teach an ethics course, you don’t even want to know what happened when NYU hired her to teach an exercise and fitness course to undergrads.
I’m afraid to click on that link because it might have a photo of Ms. Stewart.
That precedent has already been set. The University of California at Santa Cruz employs Angela Davis in the same capacity. You may remember Ms. Davis from the 1970 armed attempt to free Black Panther George Jackson from a Marin County courtroom. The guns used in that aborted fiasco were registered in Angie's name. At one point, while fleeing arrest by the FBI, she was on the Most Wanted list. The perfect person to be teaching ethics.
If I were a student in that school I would refuse to attend that class. If I were paying for my child to go to that school I would be mad as he!! & let them know it. It is revolting to think that somebody who is a terrorist sympathizer would even be allowed on the grounds. I think she should still be in jail .
For crying out loud. Isn’t Hofstra a Jewish institution? And I am sure taxpayer funding is involved in this somehow. Why isn’t this woman in prison?
Hofstra’s entire continuing education program should be disqualified, not only that single course.
It’s ironic that a legal technicality might abort this.
Typical liberal treasonous b.s.
The only way that traitor and terrorist-enabler Lynne Stewart should be allowed into a seminar on “legal ethics” is if they were to read off her convictions and describe what the “Blind Sheikh” and his network have done as terrorists, then execute her right there in front of the room. THAT would be a great lesson in “legal ethics” for all those legal eagles....
“The enrollment fee for the seminar is $475.00.”
Paying almost $500.00 for a continuing ed. course on ethics taught by a convicted, disbarred lawyer for which you won’t get credit. Yea, sign me up!
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