By George Leef
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Adding
to the recent series of articles about troubling trends in America’s top law
schools (the ones widely regarded as the most prestigious), Hans von Spakovsky
takes a look at Stanford.
I
expected things to be bad but not this bad.
For a
long time, law schools have taught first-year students a number of courses that
are fundamental to the legal profession: contracts, torts, property law, civil
procedure, criminal law, and constitutional law. But Stanford knows better! Law
students can pick up that stuff later. Their first year is instead dedicated to
an immersion in leftist theory.
For
example:
The so-called discussion courses required of first-year
students read like something out of a Franz Kafka novel. For example, “In Search of
Climate Justice (241P)” tells students that “our rapidly changing climate demands that we act
quickly and robustly to decarbonize the economy.”
What
could be more basic to legal practice than that? Consider this:
Another required course, “Race and
Technology (240T),”
teaches that technology is not race neutral, but “shaped by historical
prejudices, biases, and inequalities” and thus is “no less biased and racist
than the underlying society in which they exist.”
Read
the whole sorry
thing.
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