If someone could write a piece making these points in the Law Record or Above the Law, that might be very useful. Especially if they defused the issues from the original piece that Stefan mentions in his comment (for example, mentioning that Mystal’s argument is an understandable reaction to a provocative piece before explaining that the original argument is actually very strong and that Mystal’s response doesn’t address the underlying logic at all). I don’t know whether one would have to be a legal professional/student in order to write this though. Perhaps Harvard EA knows some Harvard students well placed to co-author something like this?
If someone could write a piece making these points in the Law Record or Above the Law, that might be very useful. Especially if they defused the issues from the original piece that Stefan mentions in his comment (for example, mentioning that Mystal’s argument is an understandable reaction to a provocative piece before explaining that the original argument is actually very strong and that Mystal’s response doesn’t address the underlying logic at all). I don’t know whether one would have to be a legal professional/student in order to write this though. Perhaps Harvard EA knows some Harvard students well placed to co-author something like this?
I wrote to the Harvard EA people, and they didn’t know anyone. I wrote to Bill Barlow, and he’s drafting a response.
Great work!
James Ting Edwards is another trained lawyer who could do this.