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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 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...
...don’t agree with their position...that an issue that arose in our class shouldn’t be discussed in our class,” said Nesson. “[But] I respect it, because it has been done in a very civil and lawyerly...
...Nesson said that while he disagrees with the BLSA letter, he respects the opinions of the association...
...responded to the BLSA letter by saying I’d be happy to appear at any time to respond to their concerns, subject only to the requirement that it be recorded,” Nesson continued, “and I was verbally informed that they did not want this...