What kind of lawyers does Columbia University plan to foist on the courts and public of the United States?  Apparently people so emotionally vulnerable that an action of a grand jury could traumatize and in effect disable them are worthy of a law degree from one of the nation’s most prestigious law schools.  Clients beware: your Columbia-certified future lawyer might fall apart if a ruling goes against him or her and become unable to represent your interests! How else to understand this memo from interim dean Robert Scott of Columbia, obtained by Powerline, and particularly the bolded section? 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...(Read Full Post)