Following up on Thursday’s submit, Stanford Regulation College Promised Free Speech Coaching. It Delivered A Campus Joke.:  Steve Lubet (Northwestern), Regulation College students and Ethics:

A latest article within the Washington Free Beacon describes Stanford Regulation College’s “obligatory half-day coaching session on ‘freedom of speech and the norms of the authorized occupation'” as a “campus joke.” In accordance with the Free Beacon,

[T]he promised coaching wasn’t a lot of a crash course in free speech. As a substitute, it was an internet program that required barely a minute’s effort, in response to 5 individuals who accomplished the coaching in addition to screenshots and recordings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. College students got six weeks to look at 5 prerecorded movies, most about an hour lengthy, then requested to signal a type testifying that that they had accomplished so.

The movies could possibly be performed on mute, and the shape—which could possibly be accessed with out opening the coaching—didn’t ask any questions on their content material, letting college students tune out the modules or skip them completely.

Extra worrisome was the shameless response of at the least one Stanford legislation pupil:

“I watched not one of the movies,” one pupil mentioned. “I by no means even opened the hyperlinks. On the day the coaching was due, I went to the attestation hyperlink offered by the college, checked a field confirming I watched the movies, and that was the top of the matter. Complete course of took 10 seconds.”

Signing a false attestation is among the many most severe moral offenses a lawyer can commit. Bragging makes it worse.