Word: parkers
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...Parker: Well, in response to the last statement. I would say first that it's simply not true that the courses taught by some of the people who have come here in the last 10 years or so, fail to attend to details in a rigorous fashion I deny that Secondly, and probably more importantly, it seems to me that to teach law without attending very importantly to the assumptions upon which legal discourse is based is radically unrigorous and indeed sloppy...
...Parker: I would say that people whose careers are built in large corporate firms, which are fundamentally bureaucratic operations, these people become highly polished bureaucrats, they become hierarchy addicts. When they move into government, many of them, of course, don't simply serve the narrow interests of their former clients but they nonetheless remain polished bureaucrats. And I think the American people are increasingly expressing their dissatisfaction with a government run by such people. I think there is evident in the primary elections right now a growing populist mood in the country, and I hope that one day fewer...
...Parker: I think to call Ibriham's point of view anti-intellectual is just utterly wrong. It seems to me that his argument is one based on the sociology of knowledge, which is a well-recognized and, I think, correct point of view that knowledge is rooted in experience. I don't see the issue as communication. I see it more as one of quality and relevance. But I don't think it's inevitable that including non-whites and women on the faculty will necessarily make for diversity in the point of view. But I think that it probably...
...Parker: To my mind the reason to integrate our faculty, bringing both women and non-whites onto the faculty, doesn't, most importantly, have to do with diversity of point of view. It has to do simply with justice. In 1954, the Supreme Court said that primary and secondary schools must be integrated. Fourteen years later they said. "The time is now We're going to judge by results, not by good intentions or promises" It seems to me at Harvard we're in that position Perhaps we were in that position long ago, but certainly...
...Parker: Not at all No. I don't see a law school as a United Nations where the mere fact that there are numbers of people in certain groups out there requires that you have the same number here. My assertion is that there are plenty of non-whites and plenty of women who are qualified to teach here, and we don't have enough of those qualified people here...