LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: The Changing Law School Curriculum: More Courses, Less Rigor? “He found some new courses that left him confounded. He wrote that they ‘defy my attempts to rationalize their existence, either because of my ignorance of their content or suspicions about their usefulness in the practice of the profession. In some cases, they appear to represent approaches that are more political and polemic than legal.’ Such courses include animal law and feminist legal theory, he wrote. That did [not] sit well with professors who teach feminist legal theory.”

In other news, critiques of phlogiston chemistry did not sit well with professors who taught phlogiston chemistry. And it’s absurd to suggest that “critical theory” courses teach students to think critically. It’s rather the opposite, usually. Likewise, there’s no reason to believe that feminist legal theory does anything to promote a “just society.”