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JONATHAN TURLEY: Too Much Harvard and Yale: ?When you virtually exclude all but two of the nation??

By Glenn Reynolds

JONATHAN TURLEY: Too Much Harvard and Yale: “When you virtually exclude all but two of the nation’s 160 law schools as sources for justices, it not only reduces the number of outstanding candidates but guarantees a certain insularity in training and influences on the court. This bias is not only elitist but decidedly anti-intellectual. Moreover, there is no objective basis for favoring these two schools. . . . The favoritism shown Harvard and Yale should be viewed not just as incestuous but as scandalous. It undermines educational institutions across the country by maintaining a clearly arbitrary and capricious basis for selection. It also runs against the grain of a nation based on meritocracy and opportunity.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 13, 2010 (boomark / email).