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DearProfessorMoglenAnOpenLetter 9 - 07 Apr 2010 - Main.JessicaCohen
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 Dear Professor Moglen,

I am writing this letter because I think you provide a vital voice to the Columbia Law School community, and because the time you devote to students in office hours and the work you do on the wiki is more than commendable and should be more common. However, though you are one of the most engaging and dedicated professors I have encountered at CLS thus far, its not all just peachy.

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 The respect we extend to each individual should not turn on what level of power they have, but on the degree to which they are human.

-- NonaFarahnik - 07 Apr 2010

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What does "degree to which someone" is human mean?

I don't think Eben rails against people with power because they have power. It seems to me that it's the misuse/misallocation of power that really pisses him off.

And now I'm in this strange position of defending something I could never see myself doing. Anyway. If this about favoring "principled" arguments over empty epithets, I'm with you. I guess I just don't see it that way. Ask Eben why he thinks someone is "lazy and stupid" and he'll tell you.

I also don't want to get into this awkward debate over why our Professor speaks the way he does but it seems that calling people lazy and stupid - and other shock-inducing phrases - is meant to help us overcome our psychological predispositions of thinking professors at CLS and other figures can do no wrong. You say that if you were his lawyer you'd tell him not to curse or whatever and I guess some of it (especially knocking students, again) is unnecessary but I do maintain that it's sometimes his rhetoric that makes him so thought-provoking.

-- JessicaCohen - 07 Apr 2010

-- JessicaCohen - 07 Apr 2010

 
 
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