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Law Schools Are Bad for Democracy

They whitewash the grubby scramble for power

Martin León Barreto for The Chronicle

December 16, 2018 Premium content for subscribers. Subscribe Today

Yale Law School, where I teach, was roiled by the confirmation process of Brett Kavanaugh. The usual disagreements about the politics of the day that are healthy in any community were exacerbated by a sense that this was not just one more...