Stanford Law Appoints Student Who Helped Organize Shoutdown of Federal Judge to Help Search for New Dean
“the co-president of Stanford OutLaw, the LGBT student group that led efforts in March to disrupt a Federalist Society event”
Students should not be rewarded for shouting people down. This is why this keeps happening.
NEW: Remember when students shouted down a federal judge at Stanford Law School? Stanford has tapped an organizer of that protest to serve on a search committee for the law school’s next dean.🧵https://t.co/oPhC0qPpxh
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) October 31, 2023
From the Washington Free Beacon:
Stanford Law School Taps Organizer of Shout-Down Protest To Help Find New Dean
Stanford Law School has tapped a student involved in the successful effort to shout down a federal judge to serve on a search committee for the law school’s next dean, raising questions about the school’s stated commitment to free speech.
The only student on the law school’s search committee, Matthew Coffin is the co-president of Stanford OutLaw, the LGBT student group that led efforts in March to disrupt a Federalist Society event featuring Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan. Along with nearly a dozen faculty members, Coffin will help identify candidates to replace former Stanford Law dean Jenny Martinez, who was named provost of the university in August.
It is not clear how Stanford chose the committee—the school did not respond to a request for comment—but its members were announced in an October 4 email to the school.
Students say Coffin’s appointment is a betrayal of the promise, made by Martinez in a 10-page memo about the Duncan brouhaha, that the law school would recommit itself to free expression. “It’s really disappointing and seemingly rewards the behavior that the law school rightly rebuked last year,” one Stanford Law student said. “It’s like the moment Dean Martinez got one foot out the door, Stanford stopped trying to hide its antipathy to the Federalist Society.”
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Stanford has become woke trash dumpster fire.
Like harvard they don’t teach critical thinking nowadays. Its all conformity to CRT, DEI, BLM, LGBT.
You copy and paste this same inane, grammatically atrocious statement on every story and just trade out the name of the school without a hint of irony.
Did Stanford promote Martinez to provost to “protect” the far-leftists at the law school? The home of professors Bankman and Fried, it must be a really special place.
Yes, it looks like the fox will guard the henhouse
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The provost is the only professor who can protect academic freedom . Her failure to do so in the law school got her a promotion at Stanford.
I hope corporations are noting the class of graduates from Stanford law school when they hire.
They should’ve expelled the little jerk.
Soon, a new class of law graduates at Stanford and elsewhere will be seeking admission to the bars of various states. Besides having to pass the bar exam, they will also have to prove that they are of good moral character to be lawyers. An organized program should be developed to challenge the .moral fitness of students like the Stanford students who shouted down the Federal judge, and students who have recently engaged in anti-semitic activities. These students should not be allowed to practice law.