The legal academy is responding with outrage and disgust that a white professor at the University of Oregon School of Law wore blackface to an off-campus Halloween party attended by some fellow law faculty and students.
Some colleagues are calling for Nancy Shurtz’s resignation and professors elsewhere are saying the incident is a symptom of a deeper problem with race on law campuses.
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