Judge David Trager, the former dean of Brooklyn Law School, died last week. He was 73. Trager joined the Brooklyn Law faculty in 1978 and served as the school's dean from 1983 until 1993. In 1993 he was appointed a U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
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I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that