I’m encouraged to hear they read him in Law School! After reading the book I had the impression guys like Lawrence Tribe get a lot more play than Bork. I really felt like my analytical skills were sharpened from having read the book. I can’t bear to read what passes for Constitutional analysis after reading it either.
I went to South Texas College of Law ... a pretty conservative law school. Its a private law school in Houston, Texas -- the Law School affiliated with Texas A&M University. Our Federalist Society and Republican Law Students Assoc. were both twice as big as our Democratic Law Students Assoc ... and, as a Federalist Society debater, I can assure you the debates weren't even close.
Tribe gets some play as well. We had some liberal professors -- including this dope-smoking hipster doofus, Buford Terrell, that taught 1st Amendment Law, and refused to take roll because he thought it too "authoritarian" (he actually guest hosts a drug legalization show on wacko Pacifica Radio in Houston).
That's the schmuck that taught First Amendment Law.
But, overall, this was a conservative, upper-middle class, Texas law school. You want liberal -- try Texas Southern University Law School ... but, they're not turning out Constitutional scholars, they're turning out traffic court lawyers.
>> I really felt like my analytical skills were sharpened from having read the book. I cant bear to read what passes for Constitutional analysis after reading it either.
Honestly, it was the best book on Constitutional law I've ever read. Bork and Scalia are pretty much the pinnacle of Constitutional legal thought in this country. Clarence Thomas, William Rehnquist, Mark Levin ... there are others. But you cannot beat Bork and Scalia.
You want a good Constitutional Law read ... try "Scalia Dissents", a collection of Antonin Scalia's most scathing dissenting opinions.
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