Today I have for you not an angry judge story, but an angry law professor story — the story of a brilliant but angry and aggressively Socratic lawprof brought low.
Though I didn’t witness it myself I spoke to several people I trust who saw it firsthand.
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For the record, despite what generations of both law profs and law students seem to have assumed, Prof Kingsfield in the Paper Chase is most assuredly a villain, whether he was intended to be or not.
I took a class with a Kingsfield-like prof, and his abuse was absolutely antithetical to learning.
My lawyer father told of a tyrant Brooklyn judge who ruled his court mercilessly. Even had a hand signal to stop the stenographer's recording. Apparently his residence was burglarized and someone took a dump in his bed.
