Not like lawyers have to deal with any of that stuff…
Via Reason:
Oxford University has joined American law schools in discouraging the teaching of uncomfortable subjects—such as laws relating to sexual violence. The university evidently sees no problem with humoring the emotional fragilities of its would-be lawyers and judges—rather than force them to confront what they fear, it would rather let them remain uneducated.
I previously reported on the testimony of Jeannie Suk, a Harvard University law professor who reports that teaching rape law has become an impossible task for many professors. Squeamish students—some of them victims of sexual assault—veto discussions of subjects that offend them. One professor, according to Suk, was asked by a student to stop using the word violate—as in “Does this conduct violate the law?”—because it was reminiscent of violence. Faced with such a minefield of potential triggers, many professors feel they have no choice but to skip over challenging subjects.
A similar climate is overtaking Oxford, according to The Daily Mail:
They are destined to be barristers and judges – but undergraduates studying law at Oxford are being told before lectures on cases involving violence or death that they can leave if they fear the content will be too ‘distressing’.