A Fundamental Principle of Their Own Profession

Starting to get holes, literally and figuratively.

Two years ago the college bookstore sent me the wrong T-shirt, but I decided not to return it. For $20 I got a comfortable cotton shirt, plus people might think I went to a prestigious law school as long as no one asked me any questions about the law.

The institution's star has fallen, so I'm not going to wear the shirt any more.

Progressivism and woke-ism have made inroads ("taken over" would be too strong) into Yale Law School.

David Lat (YLS '99) writes:

in an academic community based on free expression, there are limits to how much [Progressives] can act on the view that their opponents are Bad People. Progressives can’t shut down duly organized events because they disagree with the speakers. They can’t weaponize anti-discrimination policies to punish the protected speech of their opponents. They can’t make up and spread lies about professors with unpopular views (or the students who dare to associate with those professors).

Freedom of speech is not only a bedrock right embedded in the Constitution, it's fundamental to the operation of the legal system. The arguments for opposing sides are accorded a respectful hearing despite the raging emotions that may surround an issue, and one's notion of justice doesn't prevail because of feelings. It's very disappointing that elite law students don't understand a fundamental principle of their own profession.

And I didn't have to go to law school to figure that out.