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After classmates identified Scholl as the author of the e-mail, on April 4 Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60 accompanied him into Visiting Professor of Law Bernard E. Harcourt’s criminal law class so Scholl could apologize to his classmates...
...have watched the student criticism of Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60 with increasing concern and dismay (News, “Nesson Steps Down From Teaching Amid Protests,” April...
...students who have called for disciplinary action against Nesson are sending a dangerous and disturbing message to law students across the nation—that it is acceptable to drown the legal rights of the unpopular in a sea of protest. Their conduct is not only professionally irresponsible, it is contrary to the fundamental values of the law. If Nesson’s students do not want a mock trial, then so be it, but they should not attack him for his suggestion merely because of the sensitive and scurrilous nature of Scholl’s behavior...
...anger over Nesson’s proposal makes one wonder whether objective discourse is possible at all when race is concerned. BLSA’s demand that Nesson be censured simply for wanting to ask whether Scholl deserves punishment implies that race-related disputes should be resolved by suppressing debate and unreflectively condemning anyone involved in the controversy...
...Harvard Law Record, Scholl was referred to the administrative board. (“We have a policy that e-mails should not be anonymous,” says HLS Dean Robert Clark—as though what Scholl wrote had nothing to do with it!) And although Nesson says his decision to step down—which he made in discussions with Dean of the J.D. Program Todd Rakoff ’67—had “a collaborative character,” he questions the administration’s willingness to support...