Posted on 08/11/2021 6:12:10 AM PDT by karpov
Law schools in the U.S. used to be run by no-nonsense individuals who, whatever their personal politics, thought that their institutions existed to teach students about the law, not to engage in advocacy or speculation.
That began to change in the 1980s, as some younger law professors started to push into previously forbidden terrain, introducing blatantly ideological material, and getting away with it. As law professor Charles Rounds put it in this 2010 Martin Center article, the legal curriculum started to fill up with courses that were “bad sociology, not law.”
At Columbia, president Lee Bollinger (a former law dean), said that introducing Critical Race Theory was “urgent and necessary.” And Professor Gillian Lester, referring to the Columbia Law faculty, stated, “Their scholarship, teaching and advocacy have illuminated the pervasive effects of structural racism in our society and the law.”
But is teaching CRT anything to brag about, in law school or any other educational institution? Many think not. For instance, professors Richard Vedder and Amy Wax, writing for Independent Institute, state, “the most pernicious aspect of CRT instruction is not its content, but the one-sided, dogmatic intolerance of any alternative points of view.”
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Long march through the institutions into outright communism.
Have they cancelled all Constitutional Law classes? Idiots!
We need thousands of Scalias, not these dinks!
A good friend who is professor in a state university says every Zoom meeting they conduct with administration, or with other university administrations, now begins with every participant giving their preferred gender and pronouns.
Since forever.
The “long march” includes quite a bit of goose-stepping.
Somebody here, the other day, said their preferred pronoun is “Massa”.
And I promptlyI stole that!
Use the correct language - communism surges through law schools.
Let’s face it. Everything in America is infected.
Social media wasn't around, and the internet was just getting started, so it was all small scale, but the seed was already planted and growing.
Fifty years ago Yale Law students like the Clintons closed down the college for a protest supporting the Black Panthers.
You could trace "progressivism" in the law schools back even further, but for a long time it involved writing and litigating more than blatant activism and cancel culture.
Oh yeah...my niece came out of law school a commie and racist.
Was progressivism a good thing until that CRT?
That’s not what I believe on the matter, but I’m just asking since that’s kind of what the article indicates.
What do we do with all of the damage done by progressives prior to the 1980s? What about Wickard? What about Roe and Everson? What about the entirety of the travesty of the Warren Court?
If an engineering school tolerated the kind of crap that comes out of law schools these days, you'd never drive over a bridge or work anywhere except in a single-story building.
“structural racism”
Our national capital is about 50% black.
PG County is largely black.
Other surrounding counties are heavily immigrant.
They use superfluous words and runon sentences.
I hope we get to kill those ignorant pigs first.
From Wikipedia:
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (/ˈbrændaɪs/; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.
He attended Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of 20 with the highest grade point average in the law school’s history.
Brandeis pioneered pro bono work and was a true reformer. Brandeis was also the first to cite law reviews both in his briefs before the court and in his opinions as a justice. In 1907, he pioneered a new type of legal document, the “Brandeis Brief.” It included three pages of traditional legal citations and over 100 innovative pages of citations to articles, government reports, and other references. It was packed full of social research and data to demonstrate the public interest in a ten-hour limitation on women’s working hours. His brief proved decisive in Muller v. Oregon, the first Supreme Court ruling to accept the legitimacy of a scientific examination of the social conditions, in addition to the legal facts involved in a case.
Wilson thereafter began using the term “regulated competition,” the concept that Brandeis had developed, and made it the essence of his program.
Brandeis’ successor, William O. Douglas, many years later, wrote that the nomination of Brandeis “frightened the Establishment” because he was “a militant crusader for social justice.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Brandeis
“ And I promptlyI stole that!”
And I did as well, just now!
The Woke crowd are coming for the engineering schools, and a lot of folks will die in horrible (preventable) accidents in the coming years as a result.
Leftism is dangerous for children and other living things.
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