Before Christmas break, law-school students at Harvard, Columbia, and other prestigious institutions insisted that they should be allowed to postpone their exams. Outrage over the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases simply made it impossible to study for a mere test. The dog of racial injustice ate their homework.
“In being asked to prepare for and take our exams in this moment, we are being asked to perform incredible acts of disassociation that have led us to question our place in this school community and the legal community at large,” proclaimed one letter, written to the administration of Columbia Law School and echoed in a similar letter sent to the Harvard Law School administration and signed by the entire coalition of the oppressed, including but not limited to the Harvard Law student associations for Asian-Pacific Americans, blacks, Middle Easterners, Muslims, Native Americans, feminists, and Hispanics, as well as the Harvard Law Students for Reproductive Justice and — of course — Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine. Because who has a better appreciation for the rule of law than apologists for the PLO?
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