HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Oregon Tax Prof Nancy Shurtz Issues Apology For Wearing Blackface To Halloween Party; Dueling Online Petitions Seek Signatories.

A couple of thoughts. First, you’d think a former “Diversity Committee Chair” would know that this would upset a lot of people. She probably thought that since she meant well, it was okay. But intentions and context don’t matter anymore.

Which brings us to my second point: Lawyers hold people’s lives and fortunes in their professional hands. If a Halloween costume can reduce law students, or law professors, to a shrieking outrage mob bereft of all reason, what good are they?