Yale Law School students have irreparably destroyed the reputation of their institution by going full SJW and convicting one of the school’s alumnus in the court of public opinion without evidence or corroboration. They have shown just how bad the level of legal and moral education Yale offers, as well as absolutely no loyalty to their alma mater or the principles of American jurisprudence.
In the constant competition between Harvard and Yale, Harvard Law School students had to figure out how to ruin the reputation of their school as well.
From the Harvard Crimson:
Kavanaugh Will Not Return to Teach at Harvard Law School
Embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh will not return to teach at Harvard Law School in January, according to an email administrators sent to Law students Monday evening.
“Today, Judge Kavanaugh indicated that he can no longer commit to teaching his course in January Term 2019, so the course will not be offered,” Associate Dean and Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs Catherine Claypoole wrote in the email, which she sent on behalf of the Law School’s Curriculum Committee.
A Harvard Law School spokesperson confirmed late Monday night that Kavanaugh will not teach his course, titled “The Supreme Court Since 2005” and slated to last for three weeks. Kavanaugh has taught at the Law School for roughly a decade.
If I were a student at Harvard Law, this would break my heart. To be taught law by a man of Kavanaugh’s legal acumen and experience is the reason to pay for Harvard Law tuition. It is unique opportunities like that, that make students go to Ivy Leagues.
The showdown over Kavanaugh has roiled the campus where he spent ten years instructing Harvard Law students on issues such as the separation of powers and the Court on which he hopes to serve. Though Law School Dean John F. Manning ’82 has remained largely silent throughout the controversy, Law students and alumni — as well as Harvard undergraduates — have been outspoken in their desire to see Kavanaugh investigated and possibly barred from teaching in Cambridge.
The school is kowtowing to the SJW crowd. That is the death knell for a college.
A few days before Claypoole announced Kavanaugh’s decision to sever ties with Harvard Law School, hundreds of school alumni signed a letter to Manning urging him to “rescind” Kavanaugh’s position as a lecturer and to forbid the judge from teaching this winter. The alumni had not sent the letter to Manning as of Monday evening, though it is available online.
“We believe that Judge Kavanaugh’s appointment as an HLS lecturer sends a message to law students, and in particular female students, that powerful men are above the law, and that obstructive, inappropriate behavior will be rewarded,” the letter states. “Judge Kavanaugh is not leadership material, and he is not lectureship material. HLS would be tarnished to have him on campus in any position of authority.”
“We ask that you rescind his lectureship,” the letter continues.
Thoroughly partisan. We still have no evidence or corroboration, but at Harvard Law, just like Yale, things like evidence, witness testimony, and the presumption of innocence take a back seat to social justice.
Some of the letters sent to Manning over the weekend stated that Law School students — especially those who have suffered sexual assault or harassment — would be made uncomfortable by Kavanaugh’s presence on campus. Close to 300 first-year students signed the six letters.
“Allowing a person credibly accused of sexual assault to teach students prior to a full investigation surely creates a hostile environment for many students, and especially survivors,” students wrote in one letter.
They can’t be taught by someone accused without evidence? How will they ever defend a client who has been accused of the same or worse?
First, four Law students involved with student advocacy group the Pipeline Parity Project published an op-ed in the Harvard Law Record calling on the school to bar the conservative judge from teaching pending a “full and fair investigation” into the women’s allegations. Following the op-ed, Law students staged a rally last Monday that saw hundreds of students across the University walk out of class to stand in solidarity with Ford and Ramirez. And during the tense and high-stakes Kavanaugh-Ford hearings Thursday, students staged further protests, stepping outside during a break in the proceedings to pose for pictures and hoist anti-Kavanaugh posters.
Some Law students cheered when the nominee lamented during his testimony that accusations of sexual misconduct might prevent him from returning to teach at Harvard.
None of these kids deserve to graduate from law school or be allowed to pass the bar. They are activists and will be activists with law degrees. I fear for any client they might have that doesn’t fit their world view. How could any client trust that their lawyer has their best interests at heart if their lawyers have such an activist past.
Students Filed Title IX Complaints Against Kavanaugh to Prevent Him From Teaching at Harvard Law
Jacqueline L. Kellogg ’19 — who said she has filed a complaint against Kavanaugh with the University’s Office for Dispute Resolution — came up with the idea several days ago. She began urging fellow students to follow suit over the weekend, at one point sending an email to a group of students at the College and the Law School that offered specific instructions on how to bring a formal complaint to ODR.
By the time The Crimson reported late Monday that Kavanaugh had left his teaching position at the Law School, at least 48 students had signed an online petition certifying they had filed a Title IX complaint against the nominee.
Let me see if I understand. Three women make baseless accusations in a highly partisan setting against a well respected judge. These students then decided that it is therefore sexual harassment of them (the students) to have the option of taking an elective from this same judge, who has yet to be convicted of anything.
This is such a naked power play and abuse of Title IX it is hard to believe.
Employees take note, Harvard Law grad Jacqueline L. Kellogg ’19 is a lawyer you should never hire. She is lawsuit in heels waiting to happen. She will also never be able to serve clients without you always wondering “is she doing less than her best because her client is white/male/conservative/privileged?”
The same goes for all the other signatories of this letter.
These students are burning the reputation of Harvard Law to the ground and the school is doing nothing to stop them.
I thing at the end of this, as the dust clears, Harvard and Yale will end up like Evergreen State. Failing schools that only a handful of ideologues send their kids to. If Harvard law can’t teach their students the principles of the law, what good is it?