It was a GOOD week for …
Getting heard, after Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student, was finally given the opportunity to testify before Congress about the Obama administration’s policy requiring religious institutions to provide employees with birth control. The Republicans had rejected the Democrats’ request for Fluke to speak at the official hearing. So, the Democrats held their own hearing just for Fluke who complained that Georgetown does not provide contraception coverage in its student health plan. When asked why she chose a Jesuit university, she said she and her fellow women “refused to pick between a quality education and our health, and we resent that in the 21st century anyone thinks it’s acceptable to ask us to make this choice simply because we are women.”
Placing blame, after it was revealed that a new book by Brian Tamanaha, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, will detail how both ABA accreditation standards and U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings both lead to law school behaviors that drive up tuition and foster “disreputable actions.” U.S. News responded that its rankings are designed to be a tool to help prospective law students and not to benchmark law schools. Tamanaha’s book, due out in July, promises to name the bad actors among law schools.
