Columbia Law School is allowing students to postpone their final exams this month if they feel unnerved by the recent grand jury decisions not to indict police officers in the deaths of unarmed black men.

The policy was announced by the school’s interim dean, Robert E. Scott, in an email on Saturday to the school community. A small number of students have received postponements, a Columbia spokeswoman, Elizabeth Schmalz, said on Monday, though she declined to say how many.

In his email, Mr. Scott wrote that following existing policies for “trauma during exam period,” students who felt their performance could suffer because of the decisions in the Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island cases could request a delay.


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“The grand juries’ determinations to return nonindictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases have shaken the faith of some in the integrity of the grand jury system and in the law more generally,” he wrote. “For some law students, particularly, though not only, students of color, this chain of events is all the more profound as it threatens to undermine a sense that the law is a fundamental pillar of society designed to protect fairness, due process and equality.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/nyregi...ngine&_r=0

Enabling a bunch of soft lawyers or the right thing to do?
What does this say about the quality of the school administrators?

I didn't realize until now that this topic had already been posted in the WWE until after I did so on the main page of the spin room. I tried to delete the post but I am not authorized to do so. I don't want anyone to think that I am taking Torch's material and trying to claim it as mine.

(12-09-2014 09:41 PM)BEARCATDALE Wrote:  I didn't realize until now that this topic had already been posted in the WWE until after I did so on the main page of the spin room. I tried to delete the post but I am not authorized to do so. I don't want anyone to think that I am taking Torch's material and trying to claim it as mine.

If anyone seriously cares about that then they need a life. haha

I'm traumatized by anarchists. They are really annoying.

I'm traumatized by Obama. Can I get a bye on my taxes?