July 31, 2015
"New Law School Courses Explore Nietzsche, Guns and Bible."
This doesn't surprise me in the slightest. It's the same-old-same-old from my point of view, but it might surprise you. Let me know if it does.
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"...work with social scientists to develop tools to..."
Social Justice Warrior indoctrination in place of studying Law.
It's crap and diminishes any law degree earned there. I feel sad for those already enrolled.
Law Firm HR: "What are your thoughts on Braunfeld v. Brown ?"
Job Applicant: "Indicative of post traumatic slave syndrome resulting from white privilege and patriarchy"
Law Firm HR: "Do you know how to make coffee?"
Undergrad indulgences taught by instructors with grad-school aspirations at trade school prices.
In the current cartel, it's not surprising.
A more interesting story is that of a CNN founder who now publishes (online) "The Shooting Wire."
Personally, I favor 2 years of Law School followed by a year of practice/internship. One reason for that is that our "best and brightest" are suffocated intellectually in academe for AT LEAST 7 years, and longer if they went to private schools or the public equivalent. I love the thought of these hot house flowers being required to go out to the shooting range and mingle with real folks. Involvement in local government ought to be educational (along the lines of seeing laws and sausage made), but the pros are pretty good at hiding what's really going on.
Send Nietzsche, guns, and bibles;
Dad, get me out of this.
There are some parts of this article that are better than others.
1. "Students will “draft model rules for policing agencies” and work with social scientists to develop tools to conduct cost-benefit analysis of policing practices."
2."At Harvard, students will be seeking advice from Friedrich Nietzsche.
“The premise is that provocation by this Master Provocateur may be just the therapy that law students need,” says the description of “Nietzsche for Lawyers,” taught by criminal law professor Richard Parker. There’s no exam, but “soft drinks, wine and snacks will be provided.”
3. University of Chicago’s Eric Posner is teaching a class that asks “whether plutocracy really exists, and if it does, why, and what can be done about.”
Just imagine the wonderful insight into the world of policing a roomful of social scientists and law students will have. It should be a hoot. No exam but soft drinks, wine and snacks is a wonderful burst of honesty and just right for Harvard, since everyone is a genius already. They could have fun discussing what Nietzsche would make of the course (and Harvard Law.) The third, by Posner, could be fascinating.
Pepperdine is a Christian university affiliated with the churches of Christ. Good for them for offering a course on the Bible and law.
The Torah of Moses as translated by Tyndale and copied into the Aithorized Version of iKing James is an eye opener.
It somehow copied our basic law still in use today.
No doubt more class time will be spent on trigger warnings than on the subject matter.
Firstly, I read the headline to mean a course that combined all three - Nietzsche, Guns and the Bible - and wondered how guns fit into that grouping.
As for separate courses teaching each of these separately, we would benefit from more jurisprudence classes, of which Nietzsche and the Bible would fit in, provided of course that they were authentically, objectively presented. With respect to the current state of law, it is rather clear that we have moved from (a) the natural law / common law approach that finds its roots in the lessons of faith, to (b) a will to power, which declares "God is dead" and revels in an idolatry of the ubermensch.
Students will take field trips to a shooting range “to familiarize you with the way different firearms work” and to a gun show “to see personally one of the most controversial places to buy guns.”
Are West Virginia Law students so isolated from mainstream culture that they have to pay a professor to take them to shooting ranges and gun shows? Wow.
Is this like the Woody Allen cover of 'Lawyers, Guns and Money'?
Zrimsek, you magnificent bastard!
""New Law School Courses Explore Nietzsche, Guns and Bible.""
Considering that 'old' law school courses explore whatever a bunch of long-dead politicians thought would get them reelected, this seems like a step forward.
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