A couple of nights ago, two
law professors appeared on The
Colbert Report. The first
was Professor Neal Katyal of
Georgetown who recently argued and won Hamdan
v. United States, which challenged the policy of military trials at
Guantanamo Bay. The second was Professor Jonathan Zittrain,
who works in “several intersections of the internet with law and policy,” and
recently published The Future of the
Internet and How to Stop It.
Although Zittrain works in what is probably the nerdiest
field in legal academia (and boy does he look it),
his legal handle, JZ, is
pretty badass. Maybe the best since Sexy
Rexy burst on the scene 30 years ago.
Zittrain and Katyal both held their own pretty well against
Colbert’s awkwardness-inducing interview style. Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard also did pretty well a couple of years
ago when he appeared on The Report to push his book Preemption: A Knife That Cuts
Both Ways.
Colbert hates the rule of law and elitist academics, so why is he having so many law professors on his show? Maybe he’s looking for some free advice.
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