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What else do you expect from a University of Chicago Law School faculty member?
Fuck. Of the top law schools in the nation, U of Chicago is the most notoriously right-wing of them all.
It seems to me that just like Scalia before him, for all of their appeal to these abstract notions of strict constructionism and the like that supposedly rationalize their right-wing tendancies, when all is said and done, they are just plain old right wingers and fascists.
Intellectual integrity is the last thing I look for in these types.
by SpermDonor on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 08:43:56 AM PDT
fact does not require fiction for balance
by mollyd on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 08:49:01 AM PDT
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In fact, it isn't even usually considered a top 20 law school.
I'll admit, that there are probably other law schools just as right wing as University of Chicago. But I doubt that any of these schools are of the same stature as, say, Stanford, Yale, Harvard, U Va, UC Berkley, NYU, etc.
In this rarified company, University of Chicago is the exception.
by SpermDonor on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 08:52:23 AM PDT
My personal experience so far has shown this as well at UVA - of the four major classes I took in my first semester (finally done!), two had Federalist Society members for professors, and the other two were widely known conservatives in other ways.
Not that I'm complaining, having brilliant people who challenge your views is what law school is all about. Additionally, of the four professors, only one or two I'd be able to pick out as a conservative based solely on their classroom performance. Partly because it's hard to put an ideological slant on Civil Procedure, and partly because a good conservative professor is the same as a good liberal one - coming out of their class you shouldn't know where they stand.
by jlowery on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 01:51:16 PM PDT
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by Adam B on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 08:49:54 AM PDT
I am saying, however, that U of C has a reputation, on balance, as being the most right wing of the top law schools in the nation.
by SpermDonor on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 08:54:02 AM PDT
by Adam B on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 08:56:55 AM PDT
But what else would you expect from an institution that reveres Llewllyn.
Everybody dies alone.
by Armando on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 09:08:55 AM PDT
I don't believe I heard Llewelyn discussed in any class but the required 1L "Elements of the Law" class.
by Adam B on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 09:17:42 AM PDT
these same "balanced" types construing Bush's actions as legal, especially considering the precedents that Armando cited???!!!
please, stick to the argument at hand and get your head out of your ass.... the commas, please.
Jesus: "Destroy this Temple" - Gospel of John
by The Gnostic on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 09:43:24 AM PDT
by Adam B on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 10:21:50 AM PDT
I didn't even know you were insulting me by the way.
by Armando on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 10:24:50 AM PDT
by The Gnostic on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 02:04:35 PM PDT
by Adam B on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 02:07:11 PM PDT
"That story is not worth the paper it's rotten on."--Dorothy Parker
by martyc35 on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 10:08:27 AM PDT
Sadly, Professor Sunstein failed on both counts. My own view is that Professor Sunstein is spreading himself too thin.
by eafredel on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 09:02:14 AM PDT
by Adam B on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 09:06:57 AM PDT
Not to mention that he is, by far, the most cited law professor in the United States (and probably the world). So for him to make the arguments he makes is both surprising and disappointing.
Democrats will fight for a Renewed Deal with the American people.
by Hoyapaul on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 09:08:41 AM PDT
wide narrow
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