USC’s Daria Roithmayr and Duke’s Guy-Uriel Charles on Why Race Still Matters at CNN.
On Sotomayor:
No one was surprised when the subject
of race dominated the public conversation during Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation
hearings. What was surprising was how unwilling both sides of the aisle were to
talk about race openly.
And on Gates:
[W]e understand that the arrest of
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. for disorderly conduct after he opened
his jammed front door might be a signal of existing racism in law enforcement.
But the better way to understand his arrest might be to acknowledge that
whether one thinks this is the symbol of continued racism in law enforcement or
an officer trying to do his job, in general, Gates' race affects his life
chances and life experiences.
Read the whole thing here.
Law Librarian Blog brings us Practice
and Procedure in Witch Trials – Monty Python style (yea, you’ve seen it
before, but it’s still funny on the 800th viewing).
At The Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin suggests A “Modest” Proposal for Bar
Exam Reform.
Members of bar exam boards, such as the
Virginia Board of Bar Examiners and presidents and other high officials of
state bar associations should be required to take and pass the bar exam every
year by getting the same passing score that they require of ordinary test takers.
And Ann Althouse says that Jack
Kerouac did not text, but he did make lists.
Query whether Professor Somin would extend his argument and contend that tenured profs should, every six or seven years, prove they are satisfying the tenure standards imposed on tenure-track colleagues.
I did notice in the comments section that someone asked whether all first year property profs should be required to take and pass each other's exams.