Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Vischer: Authorized Training In An Age Of Polarization
Robert Okay. Vischer (Dean, St. Thomas-MN; Google Scholar), Authorized Training in an Age of Polarization, 18 St. Thomas L.J. __ (2022):
Individuals have at all times disagreed about specific points, however these disagreements have intensified, widened, and coalesced round shared identities that form the methods by which we view the world. An more and more impermeable boundary between broad factions in our society may be seen in latest disputes over vaccines, masks, the 2020 presidential election outcomes, local weather change, responses to systemic racism, police reform, immigration, and numerous points on the intersection of spiritual perception and anti-discrimination regulation. As disagreements change into extra deeply rooted in our social identities, attorneys can now not presume that battle over a specific situation is what it appears on its face.
An increasing number of ceaselessly, that situation is however one part of a much wider set of beliefs that collectively comprise the good American red-blue social cleavage. Can attorneys construct belief throughout our cultural divide, and might regulation colleges put together them to take action?
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