From Legal Insurrection:
Lawrence Connell is a tenured law professor at Widener Law School in Delaware. I have noted in prior posts that Connell was accused of a wide range of racist and sexist conduct directed at students in his classes and at Dean Linda Ammons (because of hypothetical examples Connell used in class).
Connell has sued, and also went through a university disciplinary hearing process. The faculty committee which heard the evidence found that Connell did not violate any university policy with regard to the allegations of racist and sexist conduct…
…In a rational world, the university would seek no or minimal sanctions against Connell since he was completely vindicated of the underlying charges… But Dean Ammons recommended that the university suspend Connell for a year without pay, which the university accepted.
But Dean Ammons recommendation, accepted by the university, went much further, demanding that Connell submit to a psychiatric evaluation, undergo ”anger management” counseling…and issue an apology…
In the old Soviet Union, this is what would happen to you – if you persisted in dissidence from the reigning orthodoxy, you could find yourself under psychiatric examination. After all, if it has been carefully explained to you that you are in the wrong – and any man accused of racism and sexism is clearly in the wrong, regardless of the facts of the case – then it is time to knuckle under, accept re-education and become an emasculated cog in the liberal machine. That Connell hasn’t done this proves he’s crazy…and, so.
This point out the larger problem we have in our legal profession: those steeped in the liberal worldview don’t know what law is. Without a rigid application of the law equally, all we have is the worst tyranny – that horrid arbitrariness which leaves the citizen in the dark about what he may or may not do. That, in turn, breeds a political passivity conducive to dictatorship (which is, when you think about it, the goal of liberalism…even if not a conscious goal among most liberals). Right now, at that law school, no one knows what is permissible – even if it is clearly laid out in statute, one has to worry that some school bureaucrat will essentially issue an “OSO decree” and send you off to Siberia for a term.
The good news is that we’re likely to see a bursting of the law school bubble pretty soon. They’ve been churning out so many “lawyers” that the law field is glutted. This is why you see ever more ads from lawyers willing to sue anyone for anything. We could have a nice, little collapse which will result in a lot of law schools closing, or at least being reduced in size…and fewer kids willing to enter that market. That, in turn, may allow someone who knows law to actually have a say in how a law school is run. Anything is possible…and certainly this liberal fascism on campus can’t go on forever.
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Lawrence Connell Sues Widener Dean Linda Ammons For Defamation
Published 1, April 11, 2011 Academics , Bizarre , Society , Torts 29 Comments
We previously discussed the extraordinary actions taken against Associate Professor Lawrence J. Connell at Widener University School of Law after he used Dean Linda L. Ammons in hypotheticals in his class. He is now suing for defamatory statements that have harmed his reputation or career that painted him as a racist and sexist.
conservative white male.
lefty black woman
fits the template…….PATHETIC
the more things change the more they stay the same…..perpetual victims.
Widener is a private law college. Why do you hate capitalism and the free markets? You WANT some kind of government intervention here?
Conservative commies.
blowz0
take your meds
or get off the illegal ones.
neo, clowny is just offering up more of the sludge that passes for political commentary from the rabidly radical Left.
A comment on the political content of the event described? Don’t be silly. The RRL don’t DO politics.
They snarl, simper, and toss out snot-nuggets, then scamper away to titter about their supposed brilliance.
There may be a Lefty out there who does see the link between the actions at Widener and the historical truths of the Left when given free rein, but I doubt that clowny is that tuned in to the facts of the system he supports and enables.
He seems to be arguing that there is no objective, abstract, right or wrong, outside government control. Widener is a private college, therefore there is no right or reason to look for protection against politically motivated bullying. This is why you need Big Brother in every aspect of your life, doncha see?
In the meantime, the rest of us see echoes of the old Re-education Camps of the Hard Left. And it is not a pretty sight.
(And no, clowny, “Big Brother” is not a cheesy TV show. Take some time to read “1984” and “Animal Farm” for perspectives on your political system of choice. )
“the rest of us see echoes of the old Re-education Camps of the Hard Left. ”
Then “the rest of you” should get a prescription for some good anti-paranoia medication, hopefully something that also eliminates hallucinations.
boobie
can we have some of yours?
Well, seeing as how I don’t suffer from paranoid delusions and hallucinations, I don’t have any such medication. Nice mooching attempt, though.
Professor Connell is a victim of the “victim mindset”: Being a member of an identifiable minority excuses one from both ridicule and rationality. See this detailed article: http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2011/02/the_year_was_1996_bill.html