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?Law and Poverty? is a ?Waste of Time,? Scalia Says

By Bridget Crawford

From the Chicago Sun-Times:

On the eve of today’s 221st anniversary of the U.S. Constitution’s adoption, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told conservative lawyers in Chicago that the University of Chicago Law School ? where he used to teach ? has lost its edge and gone liberal.

Back in the days when Scalia … [t]he courses had more rigor and the school had a more conservative ethos, Scalia told 500 members of the conservative Federalist Society of lawyers at the Union League Club Tuesday.  ***

But Scalia bemoaned the proliferation of exotic law classes in the country’s law schools.”I took nothing but bread-and-butter classes, not “Law and Poverty,” or other made-up stuff, Scalia said to laughter. He said his advice to law students was: “Take serious classes. There’s so much law to learn. Don’t waste your time.”

The full article is available here.

-Bridget Crawford

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on September 17, 2008 (boomark / email).