Law schools like to say that they’re training the next generation of leaders. But too many institutions of legal education have become laboratories of divisiveness, not leadership. A series of recent videos from law schools, including Yale and Stanford, captures screaming students insulting and disrupting accomplished litigators, legal scholars, even federal judges. Evidence is rapidly accumulating that law schools across America are failing in their basic mission to teach students how to become good citizens — let alone good lawyers.
In a nation of over 300 million Americans, we’re bound to disagree on a wide number of issues. We’re committed to the same fundamental principles of liberty and equality. But we disagree fervently about what those principles require in practice. We weigh competing considerations differently. And these divergent value judgments inevitably lead to conflict.
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