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Article: "Rum, sodomy, and the lash": what the military thrives on and how it affects legal recruitment and law schools.(Discussion)
- Article from:
- Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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I. OPENING REMARKS
MS. GREER:
Winston Churchill once said that "Naval Tradition is just rum, sodomy, and the lash." I'm Sharra Greer. I'm the director of Law and Policy for the Service Members' Legal Defense Network. We're a national nonprofit dedicated to ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and related forms of discrimination. We're a legal services lobbying and litigation organization. Today's panel is an examination of FAIR v. Rumsfeld; (1) what law schools, law students, and the legal community can do in the wake of the decision to continue the commitment to nondiscrimination; the efforts to end the discrimination within the military; and a discussion ...