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Originally Posted by ecriture d'adulte
I'm surprised he's surprised tbh. Obviously 2nd amendment absolutism is ridiculous on it's face in 2023, but why would anyone expect far right arguments to make sense to begin with?
I don't think he is in a position to express such thoughts as strongly as you did even if he thinks them. (By the way he started at Berkely as a physics major major.)
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David Alan Sklansky is an American lawyer who is currently the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford Law School (since 2014).[1][2]
Early life
Sklansky grew up in Newport Beach, California.[3]
Education
A.B. in Biophysics, Highest Honors, UC Berkeley, 1981
JD, Harvard University, magna cum laude, 1984[4]
Career
Sklansky taught at U.C. Berkeley and UCLA before teaching at Stanford. Before teaching, he practiced labor law in Washington, D.C. and served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles.[5]
David Alan Sklansky is a professor of law at Stanford Law School. He teaches and writes about criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence. His scholarship has addressed the law, sociology, and political science of policing; the relationship between criminal justice and democracy; the proper exercise and constraint of prosecutorial power; the interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment; fairness and accuracy in criminal adjudication; the relationship between criminal justice and immigration laws; the history of the hearsay rule and its connection with American slavery; ideas about violence in criminal law; and the role of race, gender, and sexual orientation in law enforcement. He is faculty co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, a faculty affiliate of Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and a member of the American Law Institute. In 2017 he received the law school’s John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching. Sklansky received his BA from UC Berkeley in 1981 and his JD from Harvard University in 1984. You can find more information about him on his Stanford Law School profile page or his Wikipedia page.