The Volokh Conspiracy

How competent could they be if they couldn't even figure out where their school's own personal interest lay? Even if GMU had no desire to keep out the military, they may in the future have a desire to keep out other groups... academia should always be concerned when the first amendment gets chipped away from, particularly when its the first amendment rights of the academia itself, and the law school takes an unorthadox view of the law...

This is so stupid. GMU's dean is preening as an achilles dragging the Yale hector outside of the ivory gates. "They're so out of touch" the people who don't actually read the briefs say.

The law profs filed on on the statutory question, not the constituitonal one. They therefore didn't lose on the constitutional question. They still lost, but they lost on the minutae of statutory interpretation, not constitutional meaning. They can't be out of touch on "statutory interpretation," because 99.5% of the public has no informed position on it.

That being said, the Chief rules.

Correction, apparently on the Harvard and Columbia faculties wrote the statutory question. I don't know whether Yale filed a brief independent from the university. I overstated my case based on a limited sample.

If they are so incredibly competent, how did they completely bungle this credit requirement change? Increasing credits required for graduation from 84 to 89 after students are 2/3 of the way through their first year? They had to know it would cause a massive backlash and didn't care. Not very competent.

Whoa! The and your mother wears combat boots comments about GM law school from what I would suppose are mostly law students, lawyers or law profs is enlightening. I hope they do better when they are representing us at those scandalously high hourly rates they charge.

Congratulations to the VC for capturing first place as the most visited law blog. The most important category in my opinion because the diversity of bloggers reaches the most readers.

Come on, Come on. Law students and/or any other students in college or university haven't had a well-rounded education in three decades or more since the moonbats took over academia in the hippie dippie era.

I think Dean Polsby should be cut a bit of slack. GMU was the only law school to stand up for the JAG recruiters and for law students seeking jobs.

There were law professors who wouldn't sign on to GMU's amicus brief b/c they feared it would be held against them when it was time for tenure review. And others who simply didn't want to be labeled homophobic (even though the merits of don't ask don't tell were never at issue in the case).

Obviously GMU (correctly, according to all eight Justices who considered the matter) didn't feel the Solomon Amendment "chipped away" the First Amendment in any way.

Who cares? It's Law School!

Did I say that? Must be the overwhelming feeling of pride that I have for being on the number one blog of it's kind.

I have a feeling that Todd's note is all in good fun and functioned to see how many readers have absolutley no sense of humor. Those USN&WR rankings seem to be all important judging from the responses on other threads, for what reasons other than economic, I don't know, but the point was made that in the last contest it was GMU 1, Harvardyalecolumbiavariousivyleaguestanfordetc 0. Since this is the time of the NCAA men's basketball tourney we have to expect some upsets. Maybe we sould play this off in the tourney, I believe that GMU will make it along with Penn and possibly a few of the others ;~)

BTW, I am not a graduate of any of these schools but am a huge basketball fan.

Adam, Not odd at all. America still stands after decades of assault from the left because when most people leave school and enter the real world, they understand that while the U.S. is far from perfect, we are the closest to that ideal of any nation past of present. With any luck, even you may come to that realization in the very near future.

Good luck on pursuing a future in the law.