OPEN UNIVERSITY SEPTEMBER 13, 2007
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In Sweatt
v. Painter, the Supreme Court noted that a new law school could never, whatever its material endowment, acquire
those qualities which are incapable of objective measurement but which make for greatness in a law school. Such qualities, to name but a few, include reputation of the faculty, experience of the administration, position and influence of the alumni, standing in the community, traditions and prestige.
Application of that opinion to the new law school in this
story, as also well summarized in links here, is left to the reader.
Application of this particular aspect of this story to the brevity and obliquity of this post is probably too obvious to mention.
--Eric Rauchway
3 comments
"Application of this particular aspect of this story to the brevity and obliquity of this post is probably too obvious to mention." You've got me nervous, even though I'm a graduate of a pretty great Canadian law school. In the sentence I just quoted, I don't know what the hell you are talking about--even though "obliquity" sounds thunderingly right. And I think it's you not me, to pull a reverse Costanza.
- basman
September 14, 2007 at 9:10pm
Yeah, that's a tough one for me too. "Obliquity...too obvious to mention?" I just thought of another "ob" -- obscure.
- jm_rice
September 19, 2007 at 4:23pm
- basman
September 21, 2007 at 8:04pm