Students and Lawyers: Have a Better Attitude than Scalia

A recent op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times by University of California at Irvine law dean Erwin Chemerinsky states that Justice Scalia’s aggressive and confrontational style are a bad influence. Dean Chemerinsky finds students starting to replicate Scalia’s style and finds this trend troubling. As Chemerinsky states: “If legal professionals ignore Scalia’s meanness or — worse — pass around his insults at cocktail parties like Wildean witticisms, they’ll encourage a new generation of peevish, callous scoffers.”