“There’s a harder conversation (and, indeed, debate) to be had over the role that law schools play (and the responsibilities we bear) in supporting “scholarship” the purpose of which at least appears to be propping up a predetermined partisan political goal rather than meaningfully advancing academic understanding of a disputed historical or legal question.

Academic freedom protects scholars’ right to challenge the orthodoxy; it doesn’t insulate them from charges of bad faith in doing so.³”

Accounting academics should also be careful of being used to prop up deregulation and a return to self-regulation for public accounting.