Abstract

Diary of a Mad Law Professor

The article presents information from the page of a diary of a law professor. Critical Race Theory is a zero-budget, peripatetic, more-or-less-annual conference, not a conspiracy. It is by no means a "black" movement, even if you think "race" excludes those who call themselves "white?' Informal and interdisciplinary, there is more diversity and disagreement at its meetings than at most academic gatherings, and if there is any ideological coherence to the group, it is of a decidedly-indeed insistently-integrationist bent. Far from taking over legal academia, only about 11 percent of full-time law professors are minorities of any stripe, and only a tiny subgroup of those have ever produced scholarship that has anything at all to do with race. The recent flurry of attacks on Critical Race Theory--in such places as the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic- share a number of troubling features.