How to Teach Constitutional Law [TEASER]
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
The legal academy is losing its mind. Good news for us, the profs are talking about their broken brains in the New York Times. Today on the show, Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael discuss “The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law” by Jesse Wegman to snark on the state of legal education.
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| 0:00.0 | Michael, I have great affection for you, and you lead a very rich and interesting life, but you're a bag man, not an attorney. Hey everyone. This is Leon from fiasco and prologue projects. On this episode of 5 to 4, |
| 0:21.0 | Peter, Rianen, and Michael discuss a piece from the New York Times. |
| 0:26.0 | It's a recent editorial titled The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law by Jesse Weggman. |
| 0:32.4 | The piece addressed how the court's conservative supermajority has led to a crisis of faith among law professors. |
| 0:38.0 | When it was published on February 26th, the piece was seized upon for many of its quotes, which revealed how out of touch much |
| 0:46.1 | of the Academy remains. |
| 0:48.4 | Today, the hosts deconstruct the article to get at how and why so many in legal academia are still beholden to a legal mythology |
| 0:56.7 | at least half a century out of date. |
| 1:00.0 | This is five to four, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court and the Legal Academy suck. |
| 1:07.0 | Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have |
| 1:14.7 | impaired our civil rights like my orthodontist is impairing my podcast and career. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm Peter I'm here with Michael. |
| 1:21.2 | Hey everybody. |
| 1:22.3 | Andriannan. |
| 1:23.0 | A fourth grader problems. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, I was going to say. |
| 1:25.0 | What's going on, Bud? |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.0 | So, first of all, don't, don't be ableist against people with fucked up teeth. The basic story is that like a year |
| 1:38.0 | in change ago I got in Vizoline. I like my orthodontist he seems to know what he's doing. The only problem with him is that he doesn't |
| 1:47.2 | tell me what's happening. He'll be like, all right, scheduling another appointment for two months from now. |
| 1:54.4 | And I show up and it might just be a check-in and he's like, |
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