Adding to the recent series of articles about troubling trends in America’s top law schools (the ones widely regarded as the most prestigious), Hans von Spakovsky takes a look at Stanford.
I expected things to be bad but not this bad.
For a long time, law schools have taught first-year students a number of courses that are fundamental to the legal profession: contracts, torts, property law, civil procedure, criminal law, and constitutional law. But Stanford knows better! Their first year is also dedicated to an immersion in leftist theory.
For example:
The so-called discussion courses required of first-year students read like something out of a Franz Kafka novel. For example, “In Search of Climate Justice (241P)” tells students that “our rapidly changing climate demands that we act quickly and robustly to decarbonize the economy.”
What could be more basic to legal practice than that? Consider this:
Another required course, “Race and Technology (240T),” teaches that technology is not race neutral, but “shaped by historical prejudices, biases, and inequalities” and thus is “no less biased and racist than the underlying society in which they exist.”
Read the whole sorry thing.
Editor’s note: This post has been edited for clarity.