Wednesday, January 04, 2006

More on Bill Ayers' wife, Bernadine Dohrn

Bill Ayers' (scroll down a couple of posts) wife, Bernadine Dohrn was also a member of the 1960s terror group the Weather Underground. She's a law professor at Evanston's Northwestern University, but she does not have a license to practice law in Illinois.

Here's what FrontPage Magazine said about Professor Dohrn last year:

By 1984, however, Dohrn was ready to reenter the legal profession. She took, and passed, the New York State bar exam, and was hired by a major law firm. The Character Committee of the New York Bar Association, however, denied Dohrn’s admission application, citing her questionable commitment to the rule of law.

But Northwestern apparently has a lesser standard for its law faculty. Indeed, one does not need a law license to teach law, which is good for Dohrn, because judging from her experience with the New York Bar Association, she has likely disqualified herself from practicing law in any U.S. jurisdiction. In fact, she told the New York Times that she has yet to apply for admission to the Illinois Bar Association, despite running her Children and Family Justice Clinic.

Only in academia!

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