Fellow quoted in Washington Times about gun control groups targeting law students
Steven D. Schwinn, a law professor, and Honors Fellow at the University of Illinois Chicago, said he hasn’t seen such advocacy targeting law students.
But he said he doubts that a student who has an ethical or moral objection to abortion would work for Planned Parenthood, just as a student who opposes firearms wouldn’t want to do legal work representing a gun rights group.
“Lawyers make this kind of decision all the time. Unless you’re compelled to represent somebody, you — as a lawyer — as a general matter have the discretion to take the clients you want to take and not take those you don’t want to take,” Mr. Schwinn said.
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Modified on June 13, 2023