This is a very good (not perfect) letter from Dean Martinez at Stanford Law that’s going to enrage a lot of people. She’s taking the right stand, though it may cost her the job.
@Popehat I appreciate that her underlying message is "Look, as lawyers, you're going to spend much of your time responding to completely BS arguments made in bad faith by very unpleasant people, so you may as well get used to it now."
@riana @Popehat You've said it best. I've seen a lot of responses to this that are couched in what would be best for society / how an ideal world should operate.
Lawyers intending to practice law in the messy, historically-anchored, closest-thing-we-have-to-consensus world of actual legal practice in the United States don't have that luxury if the want to *be practicing lawyers,* and the actions of the school training them to do that should be understood in that frame.
