One of these things is not like the other. Personally I would be seething if I worked that hard and out-competed 99.9% of applicants to get into Harvard or Columbia law, just to get this shitty social justice job, just to watch them toss the same job to Al.
His presence on the staff there really is a bit of a mystery, isn't it? His law school pedigree and work experience are notably lackluster compared to the other instructors, and he's only been there since August 2021, so I can't imagine the tranny card carried as much weight as it might have been some years earlier. Per his LinkedIn profile, Alex focused on IP law as part of his JD program at Brooklyn Law School, so that might have been a connection since the clinic lists that field as one of its practice areas, but he doesn't seem to have any actual experience in IP practice, and the director has actual IP litigation on his resume, so it's not like Alex is filling in some sort of knowledge gap in the teaching staff.
He does seem to be the only instructor who's a "person of color", even if that color is one-shade-short-of-white beige, so between that and the trans thing maybe he really was just a diversity hire? Surely there must have been at least one or two other POC tranny JDs (probably Asian or Indian) in the country in 2021 who went to better law schools, though?
I still laugh at his galaxy-brain decision to go to some unremarkable shitlaw school (rank #98 ) – they call them "TTTs", or "third-tier toilets" – in one of the most expensive cities in the country that charges almost as much in tuition as fucking Harvard or Yale ($65,099 for BLS in 2023 vs $68,962 for Harvard and $69,433 for Yale, according to the
US News Law School rankings) when he could have stayed in-state and paid less than a third of that at the University of Florida (rank #21, $21,803) or Florida State (rank #47, $20,693) — although both of those have considerably higher median LSAT scores (167 and 163, respectively) than BLS, so maybe his score just wasn't up to snuff. Is it known when exactly Alex first trooned out and whether he comes from any sort of money? Because unless his school gave him a large chunk of trannybucks or other scholarship money or his family helped with his tuition, Weird Al's got to be carrying a considerable amount of law school debt for a frankly pretty crappy degree.
Just another in a series of questionable life decisions by Alejandra Caraballo, Esq., Troontorny at Law™!
