Althouse: New dean

June 2, 2020

New dean — Welcome!

I'm thrilled to become the next Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School, effective 8/1/20: https://t.co/GDnxHzhOnQ Onward!
— Dan Tokaji (@DeanTokaji) June 2, 2020

17 comments:

mccullough said...: Now a really bad time to go to law school (or college). Wait a few years. The reckoning is underway and higher education will look much different.

I’m sure this new dean is a swell fellow, but he’s part of the problem.; 6/2/20, 1:17 PM
tim maguire said...: His crim law clinic is about to have a banner year.; 6/2/20, 1:23 PM
Birkel said...: Higher ed needs to fail in a massive and spectacular way.
I hope this hire helps that along.; 6/2/20, 1:33 PM
Lurker21 said...: Some people say it was gravitas, some people say it was the wooden teeth, and some people say it was the absence of cameras, but the real reason George Washington never smiled was that he didn't want to look like an idiot.; 6/2/20, 2:11 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: Why is he using his white male previleges to take a spot from an oppressed PoC?

Clearly another white supremacist.; 6/2/20, 2:27 PM
TD said...: So, what do you think of him Anne? You have some skin in that game.

Neighbor from Chelsea; 6/2/20, 2:44 PM
AllenS said...: An Ohio State University elections law professor says a proposed constitutional amendment on voter registration would likely lead to more engagement.

The proposed petition calls for a constitutional amendment on the ballot that would create automatic voter registration through the BMV (with the ability to opt out); allow same-day registration and voting; deliver ballots to overseas military members and citizens in a timely fashion; and guarantee 28 days of early voting.

Dan Tokaji, a professor at the Moritz College of Law, says these provisions lift barriers to elections and can result in higher voter turnout.

"And they also help diversify the electorate, bringing in at least some voters who are less likely to participate," Tokaji says.

This type of person is not what Wisconsin or the United States of America needs. He wants to create voting without any safeguards. He's not fooling me.; 6/2/20, 2:44 PM
Not Sure said...: I wondered how a cishet WM got this job. Now I know.

He was also an attorney for plaintiffs in cases that kept open the window for simultaneous registration and early voting in Ohio’s 2008 general election, and that challenged punch-card voting systems in Ohio and California after the 2000 election. --Federalist Society

What's he gonna say when students demand the right to vote on tenure cases?; 6/2/20, 2:48 PM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: There is no law.; 6/2/20, 3:24 PM
Stephen Taylor said...: How's his cultural competency?; 6/2/20, 4:08 PM
tcrosse said...: He shares a surname with a rather robust Hungarian wine.; 6/2/20, 4:41 PM
Kai Akker said...: He looks exactly like an Episcopal minister about to give his initial sermon to the congregation (on Diversity).; 6/2/20, 4:48 PM
stevew said...: Looks like a nice guy. Is he qualified? Are you pleased?; 6/2/20, 5:34 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Too white, too male, won't last a year.; 6/2/20, 6:18 PM
JackWayne said...: What a fake smile!; 6/2/20, 6:50 PM
Michael K said...: Does he have enough diversity points ?; 6/2/20, 7:23 PM
M Jordan said...: Meet the new dean, same as the crusty old dean.; 6/2/20, 9:05 PM