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Sotomayor has exposed the misguided world of academic legal theory

By Alliance Alert

Heather Mac Donald writing at National Review Online: "Sonia Sotomayor?s shameless repudiation in the Senate of her past statements on gender, race, and judging is not just hypocritical, it is a lost opportunity. The airing of her many speeches on identity politics and the law had produced another Ward Churchill moment: An idea that is outright mundane within the academy escapes its hothouse environment and shakes the public temporarily out of its stupor regarding university culture. Now, unfortunately, Sotomayor?s bland denials that she ever meant what she said will allow the curtain to fall once more over the mad world of academic legal theory."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 16, 2009 (boomark / email).