The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia might have offered his own solution to the awkward acronym problem George Mason University created by renaming its law school after him last week: Ban the acronym altogether.
Scalia, who died Feb. 13, hated acronyms and urged lawyers to avoid them and instead use phrases like “the commission”—or, in his instance, perhaps “the law school”—instead of pulling from the “alphabet soup” of acronyms.
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