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By: D

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:12:28 +0000

Hm. I consider myself something of an intellectual. I was smart enough to work in industry where I produce something for the benefit of mankind.

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Finger on the Pulse: From Our Blogroll and Beyond « The Legal Pulse — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:21:23 +0000

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By: Greg Ransom

Greg Ransom — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:05:18 +0000

Hayek’s other argument was that law professors simply don’t study or understood how the social system produces social coordination and with it wealth and peace.

Their massive lack of knowledge and understand explained their failure to comprehend the role of law in the making of a good society.

Hayek says this plainly. He didn’t mince word. The law profession was dominated by the ignorant.

Note well that Hayek held a law degee and his first professional job was in the field of international law.

Hayek says this plainly. He didn’t mince word. The law profession was dominated by the ignorant.

Note well that Hayek held a law degee and his first professional job was in the field of international law.

By: Walter Olson

Walter Olson — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:17:57 +0000

Publishers always have leeway to alter these things, but unless anything appears to the contrary, I assume February will stand.

By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:03:17 +0000

Just a mundane question here….. is there a release date?

Amazon seems to be hinting at February 2011. Would that be accurate?

By: steve mansfield

steve mansfield — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:48:46 +0000

Of course our so-called elite law schools are liberal to leftist in orientation. First, nearly all of the faculty are graduates of the Ivy League, in most cases on both the undergraduate and law school levels. Very rarely, as students, did they ever encounter a conservative professor. However, they certainly encountered lots of leftist professors and lots of leftist oriented courses such as critical legal studies, womens’ studies and the like. Second, most of the faculty (and students) come from the most liberal parts of the country, namely within 300 miles of NYC, LA or San Francisco. How many Texans, Floridians, Southern Baptists or Georgians( the state, not the country) are Ivy League law school or undergrad professors? Location does matter. In fact, I’ll bet that very few students or faculty members have ever had a two-way conversation with a conservative Southerner or, for that matter, any conservative. I remember the hostility that conservatives faced during my law school days at a prestigious tier 1 law school I attended in the northeast during the late 1970s and the evidence is strong that this hostility is worse today. Political correctness is the McCarthyism of the left and there is little doubt in my mind that anyone who is openly pro death penalty, anti gay marriage, against slavery reparations, opposed to affimative action quotas and wants to stop illegal immigration could never get a position at an elite law school.