Paul Campos
Paul F. Campos is a law professor, author and journalist currently on the faculty of the University of Colorado in Boulder. His books include Against the Law (with Pierre Schlag and Steven D. Smith, 1996), a collection of essays regarding legal thought in contemporary America; Jurismania (1998), a scathing critique of the American legal system; and The Diet Myth (2005) (previously published as The Obesity Myth in 2004), an expose of the hysteria surrounding weight and health in the Western world today. Campos writes a weekly opinion column for the Scripps Howard News Agency which appears in newspapers around the nation. He has also been a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, and other major networks to discuss legal and political issues.
Campos received his A.B. (1982) and M.A. in English (1983) from the University of Michigan and in 1989 his J.D. from the University of Michigan School of Law.[1]
Campos's legal scholarship has focused largely on questions of legal interpretation, and especially on the ways in which law can become a kind of substitute pseudo-religion in a secularized culture. In 2003, the Colorado Daily named him "Best University of Colorado Professor" in its annual "Best of Boulder" edition.
Campos's weekly column often focuses on what he considers curious societal phenomena, such as the origin of the chicken sandwich, the University of Michigan's decision to keep Tommy Amaker employed for six years, the differing attitudes of University of Notre Dame football fans toward coaches Tyrone Willingham and Charlie Weis, and the presidency of George W. Bush. More recent efforts have been directed at The Process used at the University of Michigan to fill its football coaching vacancy, and the resulting incestuous hire of Brady Hoke (47-50 career mark).
His writing also appears on the blog Lawyers, Guns and Money.[2]
In August 2011, Campos began a blog, Inside the Law School Scam. Initially posting anonymously, he critiqued the current law education system in a manner reminiscent of in Against the Law. Knowing that his identity was soon to be outed, he claimed responsibility for the blog on August 20. Campos admitted[3] that he wrote a second, anonymous blog, titled Inside the Law School Scam [4], in which he was harshly critical of the value proposition of a law school education. The blog has attracted criticism from other legal scholars, including Brian Leiter.[5]
Outside the legal community, he is perhaps best known for his 2004 book The Obesity Myth (later published as The Diet Myth) which reviews research that, in Campos's estimation, calls into question the connection between obesity and mortality rates.[6] Other writing on the topic of anti-obesity discrimination includes a 2009 column in The Daily Beast suggesting that there is strong prejudice against overweight women, but not overweight men, among pundits hypothesizing about who Barack Obama would pick to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the departure of David Souter.[7]
[edit] Bibliography
- Campos, Paul and Jonathan Chait (2004). "Sabermetrics for Football." New York Times. December 12.
- (2004). "Paul Campos." Time.com. Retrieved September 12, 2007.
- (2007). "Paul Campos." University of Colorado Law School. Retrieved September 12, 2007.
[edit] References
- ^ "Paul F. Campos". University of Colorado Law School. http://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=10. Retrieved September 2, 2011.
- ^ Lawyers, Guns, and Money
- ^ Lawyers, Guns, and Money, "Inside The Law School Scam" (August 21, 2011)
- ^ Inside the Law School Scam
- ^ Brian Leiter's Law School Reports, "Update on ScamProf" (August 19, 2011)
- ^ Smith, Dinitia. Demonizing the Fat in the War on Weight, May 1, 2004. New York Times.
- ^ Campos, Paul. Fat Judges Need Not Apply, May 4, 2009, The Daily Beast.
