My comment concerned Mr. Van Dyke, who, as a law student, ventured far afield of his discipline, with predictable results. If I failed to make that clear through the parenthetical reference below, I regret it; I certainly was not commenting on Steve's post.
Michael R. Masinter 3305 College Avenue Nova Southeastern University Fort Lauderdale, Fl. 33314 Shepard Broad Law Center (954) 262-6151 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chair, ACLU of Florida Legal Panel On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Newsom Michael wrote: > I hope that you did not mean to suggest that my colleague was being > arrogant, and not knowledgeable about the subject matter. I admit that > I don't know anything about it, but Steve does. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael MASINTER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 2:17 PM > To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics > Subject: Re: Comments From Brian Leiter > > Isn't this just one more example of what Sandy has called the law > professor as nuclear physicist -- the arrogance of assuming that because > we are lawyers (or in this case a law student), we are for that reason > masters of any discipline we find interesting at the moment? How likely > is it that Nature or Science would publish an article or book review by > a > biologist seeking to elaborate flaws in the application by various > courts > of the Lemon test? > > Michael R. Masinter 3305 College Avenue > Nova Southeastern University Fort Lauderdale, Fl. 33314 > Shepard Broad Law Center (954) 262-6151 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chair, ACLU of Florida Legal > Panel _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw
