It's been a difficult semester for HLS with a racist posting his outlines online despite their usage of racial slurs and an attack on the credibility of the Harvard Law Review because of one student note. My guess is that these sorts of things happen at most law schools in the country at one point or another. There are certainly racists at my school (much to my dismay) and people who write pathetic student notes; although, usually not published.
I hope the students who are considering whether to attend Harvard or not will realize that guilt by association is a fallacy that should be completely ignored by them. Leiter is intelligent enough that I know he's not seriously making this argument. Seniors in the midst of making a big decision should not take those two instances into any account, in my opinion.
Edited: A few hours after posting this Professor Leiter apparantly removed this post from the main page on his blog. However, it still seems to be accessible via the permanent link. I'd assume he realized it was rather silly to link the prestige of HLS with the actions of two students.
Sunday, May 02, 2004
Occassionally he is wrong
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