Scalia on law professors and being an honorary ‘cheesehead’
When Justice Antonin Scalia spoke yesterday at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, he had a message for professors: teach more.
Scalia urged the instructors to resist the urge law professors often feel to place getting published in scholarly journals above classroom instruction.
“The reality is that the part of your academic career that will have the most lasting impact and that will be remembered after you are long gone is those hours you spent producing a living intellectual legacy in the classroom,” Scalia said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “I hope Marquette will always be a teaching law school.”
Scalia, who clerked at a Milwaukee law firm while in law school, also joked that Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson had named him an “honorary cheesehead.”
