Wednesday, March 08, 2006

The Best Law School In the US!

From today's Opinion Journal (emphasis mine):

Here is a complete list of universities that have said they will decline taxpayer funds rather than allow military recruiters on campus:

Yet another campus may be about to join this list, the Associated Press reports from Montpelier, Vt.:

Vermont Law School is unlikely to begin admitting military recruiters to its South Royalton campus even though the U.S. Supreme Court says it's legal for the federal government to withhold money as a result.

Dean Geoffrey Shields said the decision would be up to the school's trustees, but he did not anticipate a change of position just because the high court had ruled unanimously against Vermont Law and other law schools. . . .

Shields said the school's position probably had cost it several hundred thousand dollars a year, although he said he could not be certain because some of the money could have come in the form of grants that it was not able to seek.
The Yale Daily News reports that only two other law schools--William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn., and New York Law School (not to be confused with New York University)--defied the recruiting requirement before Monday's Supreme Court decision upholding it.

Only one law school, George Mason in Arlington, Va., filed a brief on the winning side. Given that not a single justice agreed with the views put forward by profs at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, NYU, Chicago, Penn, etc., it seems fair to say that George Mason has the most competent professors of any law school in the nation.
Not only do we have the best economics program in the nation, looks like we have the best law school too!

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