Photo: W. Jonathan Cardi (left), Melanie B. Jacobs (right) ; Photo Credit: Wake Forest Law / Michigan State University / Jake Sumner – Creative Communications – University of Tennessee (CC)
The Tennessee Conservative [By Jason Vaughn] –
The University of Tennessee College of Law, based in Knoxville, is looking for a new Dean, and two of the Top 5 candidates are proponents of ideas contradictory to conservative Christian values.
On November 1st, the UT College of Law announced their finalists for the position of Dean including:
- Melanie B. Jacobs, Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law
- Zachary A. Kramer, Co-Interim Dean and Jonathan and Wendy Rose Professor of Law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
- Lonnie T. Brown Jr., Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism, and Professor, University of Georgia School of Law
- Nicola A. Boothe, Professor of Law, Florida A&M University College of Law, and Visiting Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
- W. Jonathan Cardi, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law
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As first reported by The Tennessee Star, W. Jonathan Cardi was co-editor of the book Critical Race Realism: Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law.
The Amazon description of the book reads as follows:
“Building on the field of critical race theory, which took a theoretical approach to questions of race and the law, Critical Race Realism offers a practical look at the way racial bias plays out at every level of the legal system, from witness identification and jury selection to prosecutorial behavior, defense decisions, and the way expert witnesses are regarded.
Using cutting-edge research from across the social sciences and, in particular, new understandings from psychology of the way prejudice functions in the brain, this new book―the first overview of the topic―includes many of the seminal writings to date along with newly commissioned pieces filling in gaps in the literature. The authors are part of a rising generation of legal scholars and social scientists intent on using the latest insights from their respective fields to understand the racial biases built into our legal system and to offer concrete measures to overcome them.”
W. Jonathan Cardi is currently the associate dean for research and development and a professor of law at Wake Forest University School of Law.
He is a co-author of a torts casebook, a remedies casebook, and two commercial outlines and is a co-editor, with Gregory S. Parks and Shayne Jones, of Critical Race Realism: Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law (The New Press).
He has served as president of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools and chair of the Remedies Section of the AALS and is a member of the American Law Institute. He is also a contributor to the European Group on Tort Law.
Cardi clerked for the Honorable Judge Alan Norris, U.S. Federal Court of Appeals Judge for the 6th Circuit, before working as a litigator at the D.C. law firm Arnold & Porter. Prior to joining Wake Forest, he was a faculty member at the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he taught for eight years.
One of the other finalists, Melanie B. Jacobs, currently is a Professor of Law at Michigan State University.
Her school profile states that “ her scholarship advocates for legal recognition of non-traditional families and changes to the traditional establishment of parent-child relationships due to the increased use of assisted reproductive technologies.”
It goes on to state that, “Professor Jacobs has argued in favor of preserving non-biological parental relationships to foster the best interests of children as well as recognizing more than two legal parents in certain circumstances. Her work has been featured in nearly a dozen law reviews including the Buffalo Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, and Yale Journal of Law & Feminism. Her current research and scholarship explores the link between procreative autonomy and intentional parenthood. Professor Jacobs is part of the Feminists Judgments Project in which she has submissions in both Reproductive Justice Rewritten and Family Law Rewritten (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).”
At Michigan State, Jacobs currently teaches courses in Child, Family & the State, Trusts & Estates, and a seminar in Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Law.
Jacobs is also a collaborator with the U.S. Feminists Judgements Project that has the slogan – “Rewriting Law From A Feminist Perspective.”
Current Critical Race Theory legislation in Tennessee only offers protections for students in grades K-12. After grade 12, students are cast into the murky waters of higher education with no defined limits on the damaging ideologies they can be exposed to.
Brandon Lewis, founder of the Tennessee Conservative, said “In the next (Tennessee) General Session, we need to expand the CRT laws to cover publicly-funded universities.”
About the Author: Jason Vaughn, Media Coordinator for The Tennessee Conservative ~ Jason previously worked for a legacy publishing company based in Crossville, TN in a variety of roles through his career. Most recently, he served as Deputy Directory for their flagship publication. Prior, he was a freelance journalist writing articles that appeared in the Herald Citizen, the Crossville Chronicle and The Oracle among others. He graduated from Tennessee Technological University with a Bachelor’s in English-Journalism, with minors in Broadcast Journalism and History. Contact Jason at news@TennesseeConservativeNews.com
5 Responses
BETTER LET THEIR PRESENT EMPLOYERS KEEP THOSE TWO! LIBERAL POT STIRRERS HAVE NO PLACE IN OUR STATE! UT IS ALREADY LIBERAL ENOUGH!
It was 2 liberal UT Vet School professors who pushed TN into same sex marriage. They then immediately moved on to Texas to do the same. Be ware.
As a retired university professor, I well remember how some yearn for the ivory tower. These two candidates do not represent most Tennesseans. They should do their tower scaling in some liberal state.
Now would be a good time to let the powers that hire at UT know why these two are not acceptable candidates. CRT has no place in our educational institutions at any level.
I agree with Mary – maybe it’s time to start a petition to send to UT to let them know how the citizens feel about the garbage that is being taught to the students. We need to be very careful not to loose the beautiful state of TN to the liberals.