Monday, August 03, 2020

150 Law School Deans ask ABA to require “every law school [to] provide training and education around bias, cultural competence, and anti-racism” – Reason.com

150 Law School Deans ask ABA to require “every law school [to] provide training and education around bias, cultural competence, and anti-racism” – Reason.com
See the source image150 Law School Deans ask ABA to require "every law school [to] provide training and education around bias, cultural competence, and anti-racism"

  • Law schools should be very, very careful before imposing loyalty pledges and flawed social science testing on faculty and students.


Yesterday, I wrote about faculty and students being required to take pledges to support certain values, such as diversity and inclusion. These pledges do not define what actions have to be taken to support these values
There are great risks to sign.
Today, I learned that 150 law school deans (including my own) asked the American Bar Association to require "every law school provide training and education around bias, cultural competence, and anti-racism." The letter does not define what "anti-racism" training would consist of...Read all.

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