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Columbia Law School—EXPOSED
PJ Media ^ | 4/25/23 | Hans A Von Spakovsky

Posted on 04/26/2023 9:48:29 AM PDT by CFW

Note: This is the fourth in a 10-part series at PJ Media examining what our nation’s top 10 law schools – according to U.S. News and World Report – are teaching. J. Christian Adams and I are undertaking a deep dive into what is being taught in these law schools. We have already covered Yale, Stanford, and Chicago.

If you thought based on our coverage of the curriculums at Yale, Stanford, and Chicago that you had seen the worst of the political indoctrination that passes for a law school education these days, wait until you see the curriculum at the Colombia Law School in New York City.

Parents are paying $331,350 — or students are going into enormous debt — for what amounts to a three-year reeducation camp at Columbia to produce leftist social warriors who will, as Christian says, “upend centuries of legal traditions and institutions,” including trashing the U.S. Constitution, to usher in the Marxist, socialist utopia they think we should be. And just like the other schools we are examining, everything is centered not on training budding lawyers to analyze a legal issue and provide sound advice to a client or to serve as an effective prosecutor who can protect the public from dangerous criminals, but rather on convincing students that we live in a systematically racist, sexist society engaging in mass incarceration for political reasons.

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If you haven't been reading this series on law schools and what they are now teaching students, you should take the time to do so. This is where our politicians and governmental employees are coming from and also how the social rot is being embedded in our judicial system. These top ten law schools are where almost every federal judge on the bench went to law school.
1 posted on 04/26/2023 9:48:29 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

One would think that all these “woke” law schools are not familiar with the phrase “consent of the governed” that lives somewhere there in the beginnings of our nation. Sooner or later, we’ll tell them where they can shove their “laws”.


2 posted on 04/26/2023 9:51:24 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

That’s right!


3 posted on 04/26/2023 9:53:59 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: CFW

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/673-university-professors-sign-letter-opposing-courses-americas-founding-constitution

“673 university professors sign letter opposing courses on America’s founding, Constitution”


4 posted on 04/26/2023 9:54:09 AM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: CFW

If they hate America so bad, they should just leave and never return! I have nothing but contempt for these commie swine!


5 posted on 04/26/2023 9:59:29 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: CFW

Yes. This is also where the FBI recruits its new hires.


6 posted on 04/26/2023 10:01:21 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: No name given

Yeah thats not what socialists do.


7 posted on 04/26/2023 10:04:20 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Da Coyote
One would think that all these “woke” law schools are not familiar with the phrase “consent of the governed”

There’s one way to educate them about it. In fact, there’s even a constitutional amendment that provides the necessary educational tools.

8 posted on 04/26/2023 10:08:23 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.y )
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To: CFW

Does Columbia really surprise anyone? The cradle for the old red diaper babies? That, and New York University are the seedbeds of anti-American poisons.


9 posted on 04/26/2023 10:32:05 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: CFW

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10 posted on 04/26/2023 10:56:54 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: CFW

11 posted on 04/26/2023 10:58:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democrato delenda est. [thanks Fai Mao])
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To: CFW

Someone said “First, shoot all the lawyers” Was that Mark Twain? I guess that would mean their professors first, lest they reproduce/S....sarcasm of course/S


12 posted on 04/26/2023 2:03:19 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (Repent, turn back to your first Love. If you do well you will be blessed, if not...America 2023)
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To: larrytown

The leftist lawyers are the first ones the Commie dictatorships send to the firing squad.

They are the perfect useful idiots.


13 posted on 04/26/2023 2:10:56 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: CFW

Are you aware of any law schools that teach traditional law?

Second, and I admit I couldn’t read through the nauseating article, how do social justice marxists pass state bar exams?


14 posted on 04/26/2023 3:00:41 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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“Are you aware of any law schools that teach traditional law?”

I am aware of a few law schools that teach traditional law. Look in red conservatives states.

University of Tennessee for example. Course offerings are:
https://law.utk.edu/admissions/degree-programs/courses/courses-by-number/

University of Georgia is another example. Course offerings are:
http://www.law.uga.edu/course-offerings


15 posted on 04/26/2023 3:17:29 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: CFW

I meant to include University of Alabama Law as well.

Course offerings here: https://www.law.ua.edu/courseguide/courses/index/page:1

If you know of someone thinking of entering law school, recommend a school such as one of those and have them search the courses offered before looking for admission into any school. There is no benefit in going to a law school that doesn’t actually teach law.


16 posted on 04/26/2023 3:21:49 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: CFW

Law School does not teach the law, it teaches how to use your brain to think like a lawyer. A law school is absolutely worthless if it teaches CRT or other woke garbage because that crap does not require the use of your brain and actively discourages it.


17 posted on 04/26/2023 3:35:42 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: jpp113

“Law School does not teach the law, it teaches how to use your brain to think like a lawyer.”

Law schools should teach your brain to think like a lawyer. That is correct. But, if you have not learned the Rules of Evidence and are representing a person charged with a crime, thinking like Vinnie does not always win the case. The same with Contracts and Property Law. If you don’t know the law you will end up disbarred or worse when you fail to properly represent your client.

There are still a few law schools who teach the courses necessary to obtain the knowledge to be a good lawyer. The trick is to carefully research the schools to make sure you find the right schools. I would stay away from the US News ranked top 15 or so. Most of them are “woke” and indoctrinate into activism rather than teach law.


18 posted on 04/26/2023 4:08:49 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: CFW; Admin Moderator

Already posted today.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4148519/posts


19 posted on 04/26/2023 5:31:42 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: Albion Wilde

“Already posted today.”

Well, I searched by title and it did not show up as already posted.


20 posted on 04/26/2023 6:30:12 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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