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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole saga puts Georgetown Law in a bad light. An actual top law school would never have extended him an offer in the first place and would certainly have figured out a reasonable way to get rid of him while still making donors happy. This just confirms that Georgetown Law is not a top law school, which I think we all already knew.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ilya was straight up canceled.[/quote]
Nope. “Canceled” has lost all meaning with you people.
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I agree they shouldn’t have hired him but they clearly thought having a “center” with some right wingers would help them. Having hired him there was no way they could get rid of him without looking like a second rate law school. But Georgetown still is clearly a top tier law school and it’s sort of silly to say otherwise. [/quote]
Actually, elite institutions are quite savvy about getting rid of people quietly. They still could have that center (I understand it’s Koch-funded). It just didn’t need to be with this specific person. It truly looks like donors are making their employment decisions and that’s not elite. You expect it from George Mason. I would not have expected it from Georgetown but they now look juts as desperate as George Mason and should probably be ranked equivalent. [/quote]

Maybe in the past or in other circumstances but there was no chance here.

By your standard neither Princeton nor MIT is elite since they weren’t able to get rid of Sabatini and Katz quietly. 🙄[/quote]

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