Could you be more specific? What is it you suppose Prof. Laycock to have done that puts him in the same company as Regnerus? Are you suggesting that his work fails academic standards? That any relevant work as counsel was subject to different standards than those that apply to other lawyers? If so, how would you apply it to the hundreds of other cases of academic lawyers who also work as advocates? Do you see any potential problems with requests for the compelled disclosure of emails by university professors? Did you see any problems when similar issues came up recently in North Carolina, Michigan, Virginia, and elsewhere? Did you see any problems with the compelled disclosure of information, records, testimony, associations, and other matters with respect to university professors in the 1950s, at both the state and federal level? In thinking about these questions, do you not see any potential problems of general application? Or do you just look at them case by case? And if the latter, how do you distinguish among them? Surely not on the basis of what you think about the morality of the individual, or the individual argument, involved. What is the bravery involved? The students making the request, and the group supporting them, said that they were in no way attempting to interfere with academic freedom. I take it then that you agree that using freedom of information requests to compel the disclosure of emails by university professors raises no questions of academic freedom. Or do you think that, sometimes, it just might?
For what it's worth, I agree with you that this story deserves attention. But perhaps not for the same reasons that you do. Respectfully, Paul Horwitz Sent from my iPad > On May 25, 2014, at 5:42 PM, jim green <ugala...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Too bad it took a few brave college students to do what "responsible > academics" (including many on this list) have failed to do for years... > > http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/latest-news-ap/lgbt-activists-take-u-va-professor-to-task-for-stance/article_fa5680ce-e36e-11e3-a4ed-0017a43b2370.html > > > ---Jimmy Green > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as > private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; > people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) > forward the messages to others.
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