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Covering the Front and Back Pages of the Newspaper
November 30, 2005
LAW: A Little Diversity
The New York Observer notes Harvard Law School's tentative steps towards faculty diversity with the hiring of three right-leaning professors among 20 recent hires: [R]ecent hires have . . . added to the conservatives' ranks. There is John Manning, 44, an expert on the separation of powers and the structure of government, who advocates for a strict reading of the U.S. Constitution, and 43-year-old Jack Goldsmith, an international-law expert known for questioning the efficacy of the International Criminal Court. Both are highly regarded scholars and former Republican administration officials (Bush I for Manning, Bush II for Goldsmith). . . It's a start. Link via Bashman. Comments
Sufficient or no, Harvard Law has changed since the days when, as Mr. Berenson put it, “[Reagan Solicitor General] Charles Fried was the only game in town.” Ain't it the truth? Even before Berenson's time, you had, say, Paul Bator (who supported Anderson in '80) and Fried (who nominally supported Reagan but had nothing but contempt for the little people who put Reagan in office). Really slim pickins. Student body was pretty monolithic, too. Bator took a pre-election open poll in his Fed Courts class. Out of over 100 students, 6 were supporting Reagan, and the rest were split between Carter and Anderson, with more supporting Anderson. Posted by: Attila (Pillage Idiot) at November 30, 2005 2:01 PM
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