The People vs Harvard Law

One more great post today by Mr. Mulliner from the Free Republic website. It's about an interview made by World Magazine's Marvin Olasky with Harvard Law School graduate Andrew Peyton Thomas who presents a different view of the influential school in his just-published The People v. Harvard Law (Encounter, 2005).

An excerpt from the interview:

WORLD: Please tell our readers about Critical Legal Studies and the importance of that mode of analysis at Harvard Law.

THOMAS: Critical Legal Studies, an offshoot of Marxism, is a legal philosophy that has become highly influential in American law schools. The "Crits," as supporters of this philosophy are known, argue that the wealthy and powerful have used the law to promote white-male-dominated capitalism at the expense of the poor. They urge attorneys to use...

Great commentaries, too, at the original post...

Here is the World Magazine site of the Marvin Olasky-Andrew Peyton Thomas interview.