Campus Reform reports:
A study by a researcher at Stanford University , the No. 2 ranked law school in the U.S., finds that conservative or libertarian law professors are discriminated against largely at top-ranked law schools when compared with their liberal and moderate peers.
James C. Phillips, a non-resident Fellow with the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, recently published a study which concludes that conservatives and libertarian law professors face discrimination from elite, top-tier schools compared to liberal or moderate professors.
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“An echo chamber is created when most everyone has the same fundamental worldview, or at least there is a dominate [sic] orthodoxy,” Phillips told Campus Reform. “You could see it in the Obamacare litigation. The legal academy found laughable the thought that Obamacare violated the Commerce Clause. But that argument ended up getting five votes at the Supreme Court, even if the law was upheld on other grounds.”
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