Law Professors Saying Dumb Things
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The truth comes out: “Amy Wax is not woke.”
That's the apt gloss by the funniest law professor on Twitter on the latest "wisdom" courtesy of Professor Wax. First she disparaged African-American students at Penn, now she's come for the "Asians" (with a jab at her least favorite racial group thrown in as well): In the case of Asians in the U.S., the overwhelming…
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Richard Painter (Minnesota) is an astonishingly dishonest person
Some readers will recall some posts from July about Twitter's most unhinged law professor. Remarkably, he continues to lie about me almost two months later, I guess because he's not used to getting any pushback on his unethical behavior. Here is a tweet from September 8 (although he's made the same false claim literally dozens…
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The dumbest law teacher in America?
Quite possibly. He's a lecturer, teaching skills courses, but not a member of the clinical or academic faculties at the University of Miami. Assuming he enjoys contractual protection for academic freedom (I don't know if he does), then he is protected from sanction by Miami for his extramural speech. There is no evidence that he…
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Adrian Vermeule, redux
So it appears the notorious tweets that we noted recently were not anomalous, as Professor Vermeule's latest public foray into morbid reactionary fantasies suggests: [O]ne can imagine an illiberal legalism that is not “conservative” at all, insofar as standard conservatism is content to play defensively within the procedural rules of the liberal order. This…
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What happened to Adrian Vermeule?
Here he is suggesting conservatives opposed to Trump should be sent "to the camps" and here he is defaming atheists. Bizarre. UPDATE: He's apparently deleted his Twitter account in the wake of the former episode.
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Northwestern’s Steven Calabresi has not covered himself in glory…
…with this bizarre opinion piece. These twitter responses are representative, and his colleague Steven Lubet has written at greater length about this.
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More fun with Akhil Amar
Several readers sent me this (a propos this).
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Some choice words from the founder of Thomas Cooley Law School, Thomas Brennan
From Politico: The recent tax records show that school’s 88-year-old founder, Thomas Brennan, a former Michigan state Supreme Court justice who stepped down as Cooley’s president in 2002, has continued to be paid more than $329,000 a year as an emeritus professor even though he works only five hours a week. An audit released last…
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Ignorant bloviating about Whittier
I could not agree more with Northwestern Dean Dan Rodriguez: Whittier's sudden closing is obviously a tough thing for current students and faculty. Perhaps the decision will be unraveled in the face of public pressure or via littigation. Yet there seems precious little basis to jump into a matter whose complex issues are essentially private,…
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University of Oregon law professor went to Halloween Party in blackface
Yikes! UPDATE: Now 23 of the professor's colleagues have called on the faculty member to resign if the allegations are true. That reflects poorly on them, and suggests they have no regard for contractual and constitutional rights to academic freedom, including the right to engage in racially insensitive extramural speech. Absent a finding that the…
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Tennessee Law Prof. Glenn Reynolds–aka, “InstaIgnorance” as I used to call him back in the day–has Twitter account suspended after encouraging motorists to run down protesters in Charlotte
Several readers have flagged this story for me. Reynolds is a benighted soul, alas. A criminal law colleague calls to my attention: TN Code § 39-12-102 (2015) (a) Whoever, by means of oral, written or electronic communication, directly or through another, intentionally commands, requests or hires another to commit a criminal offense, or attempts to…
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Melodrama at Georgetown Law in the wake of Justice Scalia’s death
IHE reports. UPDATE: There's a longer article on this brouhaha here. I find I agree with a lot of what Mike Seidman (Georgetown) is quoted in the article as saying in the wake of this dispute. In general, institutions should not adopt positions; faculty should adopt positions. But the convention of recognizing and mourning the passing…
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Another ignorant apologist for gun carnage exposed
Surprise, surprise.
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Another mass shooting, and another set of pathetic rationalizations by law professors
MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCTOBER 2–UPDATED Glenn Reynolds (University of Tennessee) leads the way as usual. President Obama is disgusted, as well should we all be. Reynolds's disgraceful irrationality on this subject is of longstanding. He really is "part of the problem." UPDATE: A reader sends along this apt 2012 article about gun control. He…
If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…