Word: mocking
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Just ask Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60. When Nesson offered to defend Scholl in a mock trial, he encountered objections nearly as vociferous as the initial clamor. BLSA demanded that Nesson be publicly censured and barred from teaching first-year classes, and Nesson agreed to step down from teaching all but the final lecture of his torts class this year...
Nesson’s critics point to the sensitivity of the issues his mock trial would address. But why does it follow from this sensitivity that there must be a moratorium on public reflection? Doesn’t that very sensitivity make public discussion all the more urgent? And given the complexity of the problem, wouldn’t a procedure designed to weigh competing claims and arrive at a deliberated outcome be useful in finding solutions...
Nesson thinks so. “I suggested a mock trial,” he told me, “because a process like that calls for fairly rigorous definition of issue, provides a framework for asking tough questions and following up, and provides a framework for deliberating what emerges...
Smith said the group is looking at an alternative that could achieve similar goals, such as a day of holding hands, or a mock wedding...
From across DeWolfe Street, intense-eyed Wright salutes with mock gravity. It is warm, and he is barefoot, wearing shorts and a blue camouflage bandanna knotted around his head for a walk down by the River...