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Columbia Law Lets Those “Traumatized” by Garner Verdict Delay Exams
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On December 8, 2014 @ 1:02 pm In The Point | 20 Comments
This is law school which means we’re dealing with people who are legal adults in every sense of the word. Some of their counterparts are in combat in Afghanistan or married with several kids.
It’s bad enough that schools treat children this way, but now we’re Peter Panning further into permanent childhood.
The grand juries’ determinations to return non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases have shaken the faith of some in the integrity of the grand jury system and in the law more generally. For some law students, particularly, though not only, students of color, this chain of events is all the more profound as it threatens to undermine a sense that the law is a fundamental pillar of society designed to protect fairness, due process and equality.
I doubt the average Columbia Law student believes that. The average Columbia Law prof certainly doesn’t.
Furthermore the real lesson of both of these verdicts is the great value of liberal lawyers that the law protects the presumption of innocence for suspects. With these cases, liberals suddenly insisting on adopting the victims first rhetoric of a lot of conservatives which is incoherently hypocritical.
In recognition of the traumatic effects these events have had on some of the members of our community, Dean Greenberg-Kobrin and Yadira Ramos-Herbert, Director, Academic Counseling, have arranged to have Dr. Shirley Matthews, a trauma specialist, hold sessions next Monday and Wednesday for anyone interested in participating to discuss the trauma that recent events may have caused .
Columbia Law is bringing in a trauma specialist for adults who haven’t actually experienced anything. They just watched television.
The law school has a policy and set of procedures for students who experience trauma during exam period. In accordance with these procedures and policy, students who feel that their performance on examinations will be sufficiently impaired due to the effects of these recent events may petition Dean Alice Rigas to have an examination rescheduled.
Just wait till these special snowflakes make it to a courtroom.
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