Weisburd, Arthur Mark
posted by Classroom Justice | 1:00 PM
Classroom Justice
This blog is dedicated to highlighting any unethihcal personal biases shown by professors at UNC Law. Anonymous, but honest, posts are encouraged by students who feel a professor has tried to unfairly influence them with political bias. Please post if you also feel your ability to share a opinion in the classroom, or on an exam, is jeapordized by the conduct of a professor. If you find a professor's conduct questionable or admirable, please share this as well.
- Turnier, William J.
- Stanton, Teresa
- Sherwood, Jim
- Savasta-Kennedy, Maria
- Saunders, Melissa
- Rosen, Richard
- Ratliff, Alice A.
- Postema, Gerald J.
- Orth, John V.
- Myers II, Richard E.
6 Comments:
simply, the man.
this blog is a total bust. cannot the right flank guys post one example of real bias here? surely some professor has advocated for the impeachment of antonin scalia for his brand of originalism?
um . . . , and orgies, orgies are liberal, right? (except for UNC fraternity toga parties, I guess?) any support for orgies from the family law profs?
Agreed, and I'd like to note three things which, to me, indicate a trend:
(1) Conservatives who (perhaps legitimately) express concern with the lack of right-leaning views represented in class almost never speak. When professors explicitly ask for a conservative response, they remain silent. Afterward, they complain about an academic atmosphere in which they refuse to participate.
(2) As mentioned above, although this forum has been a joke, this is in part due to the fact that no legitimate comments have been offered concerning real bias. Again, the conservatives are presented with a valid forum for a debate they perpetually initiate, but in which they refuse to participate.
(2) Though the Right Flank apparently did not have a hand in starting Classroom Justice, I do note that they have completed every part of their website except for the blog section, which despite requests from me for its completion, has remained unfinished for weeks. So, the leading conservative voices on campus finally speak up, but do so in a protective manner which invites no response.
I was a liberal when I began law school, and law school has pushed me even further left. I partially attribute this to the fact that I have never been able to consider and understand many issues from a conservative perspective, because such a perspective is rarely provided to me. I personally find that my professors, though liberal, go out of their way to elicit conservative opinion. I wish such opinion was more forthcoming. I've been able to garner some conservative philosophy from the Right Flank, but their articles read more like conservative MoveOn.org emails than thoughtful analysis. Let's all try to do a better job of raising the level of valid political debate at UNC Law.
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Nice math skills.
That's why I went to law school, folks.
I posted this on the Roessler blog, but I am posting it here to make sure it reaches its target audience.
To the anonymous (im)Posters: Maybe the reason all of the law professors are Democrats is because most of your Republican lawyer buddies are working at 300 person law firms trying to take down as much cash as they can while pretending to throw a pro bono "bone" out every once and a while in some highly publicized effort. Or maybe they are in the US Attorney's office trying to figure out how to put 20 year old kids in prison for 20 years for selling crack. Or maybe they are advising the president how to circumvent the constitution. Or maybe they are on the federal bench or on the supreme court systematically removing your constitutional rights. Or maybe they are running companies like Enron. Or maybe they are professors at somewhere like Pat Robertson's Regent University School of Law where you sure as hell could have gone if you got into Carolina. Listen to your liberal professors and learn the ideals about why you SHOULD be wanting to practice law and then when you get out of Carolina law school and take your associate job pulling down $115,000 the first year (absurd, but true), maybe you will not forget that but for the grace of God and accident of birth your ass could be on some street corner in Durham selling crack or dancing for Duke lacrosse players. By the way, what's with all the anonymous posts? I thought law school was the last bastion of open discourse. I went to Carolina undergrad but partied a little too hard to get into the law school, but I lose a lot of respect for it as an institution when I observe so many future lawyers not having the guts to put their signature next to their opinion. And by the way, I went to Campbell Law School and it was run by a bunch of conservative folks but it was a LAW SCHOOL with big boys and girls--a place where open thought and debate was encouraged. We even had a death penalty forum with Ben Chavis as a keynote speaker (1985). If it isn't that way at Chapel Hill because of the alleged oppressive liberal bias that you claim then come out from behind your cloak of anonymity and speak your mind. I submit to you that it takes a lot more courage to speak out against the status quo of our currently oppressive federal regime than it takes to express a conservative opinion in a law school in Chapel Hill. Conservative sensitivity, whining and inverse political correctness (i.e. such as that by the anonymous writers in this blog) are taking this country right down the road towards true fascism where political discourse is foreclosed. So wake up and realize how privileged you are to sit in a law school as prestigious as Chapel Hill and to have the luxury of sitting at a computer reeling off anonymous opinions about other people's political affiliations. The powerful are still in power and those with the gold still make the rules and the alleged misguidance of your Carolina law professors unfortunately probably won't change that.
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