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August 28, 2005
News Flash: Liberals Control Law School Faculties
Jim Lindgen comments at The Volokh Conspiracy about a new study that documents the political imbalance of our law school faculties (via The Corner). The study, conducted by John McGinnis, will be published in the upcoming Georgetown Law Journal and will show that an overwhelming majority of law school professors identify with liberal/Left causes. Lindgren wonders:
Now consider this thought experiment: [Imagine that in 1988 all but one of the Harvard Law faculty had favored Bush1 over Dukakis. And] Imagine that over the same period of a quarter century [mid 1970s through early 2000s], the Harvard Law School had hired at the entry-level only those who leaned Republican. Imagine how different the Harvard Law School would be, how different legal education would be, how different the government (and public policy) would be, populated with lawyers trained by an overwhelmingly Republican Harvard faculty. Somehow I think it would be a different world.
This argument holds for universities in general, as well as law schools, and it is devastating to lib/Leftists' nonchalance in adressing this problem: if they had to send their precious children to universities whose faculities were 80 percent conservative or Rebublican, there would be a nuclear explosion of outrage pulsing through the MSM.
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