Columbia Law School

If you thought based on our coverage of the curriculums at Yale, Stanford, and Chicago that you had seen the worst of the political indoctrination that passes for a law school education these days, wait until you see the curriculum at the Colombia Law School in New York City.

Parents are paying $331,350 — or students are going into enormous debt — for what amounts to a three-year reeducation camp at Columbia to produce leftist social warriors who will, as Christian says, “upend centuries of legal traditions and institutions,” including trashing the U.S. Constitution, to usher in the Marxist, socialist utopia they think we should be. And just like the other schools we are examining, everything is centered not on training budding lawyers to analyze a legal issue and provide sound advice to a client or to serve as an effective prosecutor who can protect the public from dangerous criminals, but rather on convincing students that we live in a systematically racist, sexist society engaging in mass incarceration for political reasons.

The law school’s focus on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is such a “fixture of the Columbia Law experience” that the law school’s “Social Justice Initiative” has a weekly “discussion series” on “social activism, civil and human rights, racial justice, law and the arts, and mass incarceration.” The school even has its own equivalent of Soviet-style political commissars to ensure everyone toes the line: the Anti-Racism Coordinating Committee, whose job is “tracking, advancing, and supporting the Law School’s anti-racism agenda.” Apparently, the law school envisions its raison d’etre to be engaging its students “in the hard work of self-examination” and “charting a course for a future built on a strong and indefatigable commitment to combating structural racism.”

Note: This is the fourth in a 10-part series at PJ Media examining what our nation’s top 10 law schools – according to U.S. News and World Report – are teaching. J. Christian Adams and I are undertaking a deep dive into what is being taught in these law schools. We have already covered Yale, Stanford, and Chicago.

Let me guess...the Constitution needs changing, Black Lives Matter, and laws are for the little people.

2 posted on 04/26/2023 7:53:32 AM PDT by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)

Columbia’s been the equivalent of a commie front group for decades... Vile bunch of ‘elites’ who hate our country and the people who live here...

A pox on their filth...

3 posted on 04/26/2023 8:35:43 AM PDT by GOPJ (best definition of WOKE/socialism is simply “The endless war against merit. ”Victor Davis Hanson )

Best way to learn about the law is to become knowledgeable about the Court Rules, rules of evidence, read the more important cases from the Supreme courts, both state and the US Supreme Courts.

Do that and you will more knowledgeable than most attorneys and A LOT of judges.

Doing a 2-3 year internship with an attorney can qualify you to take the bar association e am in most states.

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