Download This PaperThe New Taboo: Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond
66 Pages Posted: 19 Oct 2020 Last revised: 10 May 2021
Date Written: August 29, 2020
Abstract
Is it wrong for professors to quote epithets — especially “nigger” and "fag" — in class or other educational settings? This question has often been in the news in recent years, both as to law schools and as to other departments. This article discusses the matter, building on a closely related practice: how judges and lawyers deal with epithets in litigation and opinion writing.
Keywords: Legal Education, Legal Profession, Race and the Law
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Kennedy, Randall L and Volokh, Eugene, The New Taboo: Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond (August 29, 2020). Capital University Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2021, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 20-38, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 21-21, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3683139 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3683139
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