National Lawyers Guild President Marjorie Cohn Misrepresents Campus Watch, Others

Over at the blog of Campus Watch, I've taken note of a remarkably sloppy post by Marjorie Cohn, the president of the National Lawyers Guild.

Writing at Huffington Post in defense of Erwin Chemerisnky, the once, past, and future dean of the new law school at the University of California, Irvine, Cohn makes several erroneous charges against Campus Watch, ACTA, and other organizations, and I rebut them. Cohn assumes more than she knows about CW and ACTA, and she gets it wrong time and again.

Worse than Cohn's left-liberalism is the intellectual carelessness exhibited in her post. With only a modicum of research, she could have avoided her errors, which include charging that CW blacklists professors (no); she is also apparently ignorant of ACTA's defense of Chemerinsky--a defense that did more to ensure his eventual appointment than anything Cohn did.

And, as I note at CW, if this is typical of her legal work, I'd rather act in my own defense in a court of law than rely on her to represent me as my attorney.