Taboos in Universities, Against Displaying Certain Images and Quoting Certain Words
"Dr. Kostihova compared showing the image [of Muhammed] to using a racial epithet for Black people ...."
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"Dr. Kostihova compared showing the image [of Muhammed] to using a racial epithet for Black people ...."
At Rutgers Law School, the wannabe lawyers need to research First Amendment law | Mulshine Today 6:33 AM Facebook Share That distinction seems to be lost on the students at Rutgers Law School in Newark. In a seminary, it would make perfect sense to limit the words considered appropriate for the priests in training. They are being educated to spend their lives thinking lofty thoughts. That’s not the case with lawyers. They spend their lives dealing with bad behavior. If everyone was good, there wouldn’t be much work for them. That is the crux of the current kerfuffle at the school.
May 4, 2021 at 12:25 PM Shares0 When several law professors encourage me to read an article, I know it is going to be either really good or it will incite me. The article, “The New Taboo: Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond,” in the most recent edition of Capital University Law Review, is the latter case. The article’s authors are professors Randall Kennedy (Harvard) and Eugene Volokh (UCLA). Kennedy is author of articles and books about that “strange and troublesome word” that the article spends much time discussing and repeating. Volokh’s experience with that same wor...