Comments From Brian Leiter

[Michael MASINTER]

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.

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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:masinter at nova.edu] 
> 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
> masinter at nova.edu			Chair, ACLU of Florida Legal
> Panel