the university of tennessee grants law degrees? can you imagine the intellectual level of those graduates when we all know what yale is producing.

When can we say that the media has become so supportive--and so unquestionin--of the Bush admin that we live in a fascist society with the trappings of democracy?

Actually, Drunken Cheerleader, the University of Tennessee School of Law is, according to the US News and World Report, one of the top 45 law schools in the country. Did you know that Vanderbilt, a top 15 law school in the country, is in that redneck state of Tennessee as well? In fact, there are several schools affiliated with the Southeastern Conference with law programs in the top 50 in the country (Tennessee, Vandy, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, just to name a few off the top of my head).

On top of that, Professor Reylonds graduated from Yale's law school.

The point of the post is this: I've read several of your comments where you make ridiculous statements and asinine assumptions. What's worse is the fact that nobody in this message board EVER challenges you. So, from now on, when you make statements, try backing them up with some proof.

Just so you know, drunken cheerleader, UT's law school, according to the US News and World Report, is one of the top 50 law programs in the country. In fact, at least 5 schools in the Southeastern Conference are in the top 50 law programs (UT, Vanderbilt, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama). Professor Reynolds DID graduate from Yale.

Before you pop off with asinine comments, try getting some facts.

Apparently "Regular Reader" believes that the more times it posts, the truer it's arguments become.

Top 50? (Actually tied for 53rd) http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/law/brief/lawrank_brief.php

That's bragging rights? The University of California alone has two Law Schools in the top twenty and four in the top forty, and I suspect the faculty at Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley) are not really happy about being rated as low as 13th. (Stanford and USC also make top 20)

I am sorry, I am sure they turn out some fine, hard working lawyers at #53 rated U Tenn, but I suspect they don't place many graduates as Supreme Court Clerks.

I apologize. UT is No. 53 now - they have slipped out of the top 50 for the first time in several years. I never claimed that UT or any southern school, including Vanderbilt, was on the same level as a Stanford, Yale, Harvard, or Columbia. My point was that Drunken Cheerleader needs to understand that just because somebody goes to a school in a southern state does not make him or her a raging idiot. By the same token, going to an Ivy League law school does not make someone a genius, either. For example, Memphis Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. went to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for law school. When he graduated, he returned to Tennessee to take the TN Bar Exam. Can you guess what happened? He failed it - not once, but multiple times. In fact, to my knowledge, he has never passed the bar exam in TN. But, hey, he DID go to a school ranked in the top 10 nationally.
It would be akin to me saying that everyone who attends Rutgers Law School must support terrorists because Lynne Stewart was just convicted of aiding the Blind Sheik - and I'm not passing judgment on what she did or didn't do - I'm merely pointing to the fact that she was convicted.

What did she do? Turn the light on for him?

She was convicted of passing messages from the Sheik to his "followers." Apparently, these messages that she passed told his followers to commit murder, kidnappings, and to overthrow the Egyptian government. Obviously, the last one failed. If she did those things, she certainly deserves to be in jail. I'd say that's a little worse than "turning on the light" for the poor Blind Sheik.

Speaking as a graduate of a different (better) department at UT, I think it does speak badly of the UT Law School that they would hire someone like Glenn Reynolds, not because of his conservative views, but because of his weak grasp of the law.

On top of that, what kind of law professor has the time to sit on his butt all day dredging the depths of red-blogistan for nuggets to paste onto his website. I would be ashamed of myself if I were faculty and were engaged in such an obviously extra-curricular waste of time when I should be, you know, keeping up with the current literature, preparing for classes, and writing something of legal substance. UT Law School deserved every bit of scorn they receive for keeping Glenn on the payroll.

Charles:
As a former (as of February 2, 2005) botanty student, please explain your vast knowledge of what law professors at your former school do and don't do. Last I checked, Professor Reynolds has been published in: (1) the Columbia Law Review, (2) the Virginia Law Review, (3) the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, (4) the Wisconsin Law Review, (5) the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, (6) Law and Policy in International Business, Jurimetrics, and (7) the High Technology Law Journal.

Please visit:
http://www.law.utk.edu/FACULTY/facultyreynolds.htm
so you can understand just how much Professor Reynolds has published. It sounds to me like you have some deep-seeded resentment towards UT, but that doesn't mean that you should talk about one of the faculty members in a disparaging way - especially when what you say of him couldn't be further from the truth. The guy's published more articles in the past two years than you'll ever have published in your life.

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