Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Racism in law school grading? What else is new

An interesting article was published on Above the Law - it alleges that good grades in law school are linked to the identical race of the professor and the law student.  In other words, white students get better grades from white professors than black students from white professors.  

I wonder if the American Bar Association will be looking into this.

Of course, that same American Bar Association, according to this book by law professor James Moliterno, was created to and worked hard over the decades of its existence to quash civil rights movements of "unwashed immigrants", communists or "communist sympathizers", labor movements, and against racial desegregation and, generally, civil rights lawyers as sources of "incivility" in the profession.

So, I will not hold my breath if the ABA will, in fact, fight racism in law schools.  After all, law schools, according to many law experts, and some lawsuits, were created and are maintained in order not to let racial minorities too close to power.

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