It’s one thing to see mainstream news media degenerate into
ideological fits—but the law dean at
UC-Irvine worries that his students’ legal briefs are increasingly “laced with
derision and ad hominem barbs.” Why? This style is modeled by Justice Scalia,
whose recent Obergefell dissent compared the majority’s legal
reasoning to “fortune cookie” aphorisms. Dean Chemerinsky’s take? “Scalia’s
browbeating is childish, even vain; like a harshly negative book critic, he
revels in his own turns of phrase. And his attitude, just like his legal
theory, affects the profession as a whole.” More here: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/07/15/law-school-dean-worries-that-scalias-sarcasm-is-spreading/
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