Perhaps if a Jamaican beauty queen (who is also a Michigan Law student) hadn't been involved, this dust-up at the University of Michigan Law School would have flown under the blogosphere radar. As it stands, however, Above the Law seized upon a mini-free speech controversy wrapped up in sex and insecurity (the catalyst was the school's Mr. Wolverine 2011 contest) to suggest that Michigan Law students are petulant, self-centered and thin-skinned. Read it if you're bored silly, but be warned, it's kinda long.
Here's the skinny. Mr. Wolverine is an annual fundraiser organized by the Latino Law Students Association to raise money for summer intern funding for law students working with public interest organizations. (Good for you, LLSA. And good for you, guys who had the balls to participate.) A good time presumably was had by all. Then former Miss Jamaica chose to give clever, mostly kind, but a little snarky advice to future contestants through the student publication Res Gestae. And all hell broke loose.
Advice to everybody, including ATL: lighten up. Life in the law is tough enough as it is.
