Welcome to Law School, Where Feelings Are More Important Than Facts
University of Toronto’s reaction to Indigenous-related assignment fuss does society no favours
Hart House at the University of Toronto. If it is not OK to use real qualities of real people from real cases, then what facts should be used in an assignment to represent the real world? Taxiarchos228/CC BY-SA 3.0
Law school is not for the faint of heart. Students study cases of catastrophic injuries, lost fortunes, and destroyed lives. Grappling with the worst of human behaviour—murder, assault, fraud, theft, addiction, incompetence, and corruption—is run-of-the-mill.
Bruce Pardy
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Bruce Pardy is executive director of Rights Probe and professor of law at Queen’s University.
