Posting on behalf of a reader who emailed me (with their consent):
"When I attended Stanford Law School in 1991, it seemed like an obvious disconnect to me that Stanford was doing its best to attract students devoted to social causes—and then proceeded to load them up with student debt until they graduated and went to work for Wall Street…
Posting on behalf of a reader who emailed me (with their consent):
"When I attended Stanford Law School in 1991, it seemed like an obvious disconnect to me that Stanford was doing its best to attract students devoted to social causes—and then proceeded to load them up with student debt until they graduated and went to work for Wall Street corporate law firms!
Define 'professional judgment.' When you attract students and reward and facilitate their darn-near revolutionary viewpoints about social change, diversity and inclusion while they are in law school, how does that prepare them for the exercise of sound and sober 'professional judgment' in the corporate world?
Elite law schools have long tried to have it both ways. Woke culture predominates at school, yet funding comes and the legal pipeline goes straight to the establishment."
Posting on behalf of a reader who emailed me (with their consent):
"When I attended Stanford Law School in 1991, it seemed like an obvious disconnect to me that Stanford was doing its best to attract students devoted to social causes—and then proceeded to load them up with student debt until they graduated and went to work for Wall Street corporate law firms!
Define 'professional judgment.' When you attract students and reward and facilitate their darn-near revolutionary viewpoints about social change, diversity and inclusion while they are in law school, how does that prepare them for the exercise of sound and sober 'professional judgment' in the corporate world?
Elite law schools have long tried to have it both ways. Woke culture predominates at school, yet funding comes and the legal pipeline goes straight to the establishment."