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Members of the bar have professional responsibilities which require them, in certain circumstances, to maintain decorum in the face of people and situations the
by bradleyjg 4y ago
Members of the bar have professional responsibilities which require them, in certain circumstances, to maintain decorum in the face of people and situations they find distasteful. They even can be assigned as counsel to defendants they consider immoral and in that case must provide zealous representation.
If an incident during law school provides indications that a student might not be capable of controlling his or her feelings enough to carry out professional responsibilities, details of these incidents should be reported to the character and fitness committees of any bar those students apply to be admitted to.
- ethanbond 4y agoIs this referring to the Judge shouting "you are an appalling idiot" over and over at a student?
- scarmig 4y agoIn response to the student calling him disgusting, all after 20 minutes of nonstop heckling. (That said, yeah, he should have responded to the insults with more patience and composure.)
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoI did not see any video where he responded at all, except the “you are an appalling idiot” spoken with composure. Are there others I can watch?
- nhchris 4y agoI saw the video of him calmly saying "you are an appalling idiot" twice to a student after the student said what he's doing is disgusting (thrice) [1]. Is there a video of him shouting it? [1] https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1634791941350064128 https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1634791941350064128
- fortran77 4y agoOf course not. The activist to whom you are replying is using one of his tactics, "lies and distraction" in order to hook people who may not take the time to watch the video.
- bradleyjg 4y agoI don’t believe federal judges are allowed to practice and so have no need to be admitted to any bar.
- amirnathoo 4y agoDo they have to maintain decorum all the time or just when they are on professional duty? In any case, I suspect those students were in perfect control of their feelings and very intentionally seeking to call out and disrupt the speaker.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y ago> perfect control of their feeling The administrators voice cracked at least twice… My interpretation of that is she was about to cry… At least twice. Perfect control would mean no loss of vocal control by her, wouldn’t it?
- amirnathoo 4y agoI think you can feel and show emotion and still be very in control of your words and actions. Certainly looked like the administrator was acting very intentionally and in accordance with their values.
- bradleyjg 4y agoOnly certain times and places, just as apparently Stanford’s rules only require decorum in certain times and places. An inability or unwillingness to abide by those restrictions is useful evidence for likely future behavior and should be considered by character and fitness committees.