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Ilya Shapiro Resigns From Georgetown Law, Blames Dean William Treanor For Embracing Anti-Free Expression “Hostile Work Environment”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 06, 2022 18 Comments

"Dean William Treanor cleared me on the technicality that I wasn’t an employee when I tweeted, but the [DEI Office] implicitly repealed Georgetown’s Speech and Expression Policy and set me up for discipline the next time I transgress progressive orthodoxy. Instead of participating in that slow-motion firing, I’m resigning."

Ilya Shapiro Returning To Georgetown Law After Suspension Over SCOTUS Nomination Tweet Lifted

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 02, 2022 7 Comments

Not surprisingly, Georgetown's Dean William Treanor took the cowardly way out. Rather than owning up to Georgetown's error, Treanor ended the punishment based on a finding that because the tweet took place pre-employment, it was not properly the subject of discipline. Treanor repeated the absurd claim that the tweet could be construed "to disparage any Black woman the President might nominate," and Treanor left open the issue that had the tweet taken place during employment, it could have been the subject of discipline. This is a winning day for Ilya Shapiro, but it is another losing day for freedom of expression on campuses.

Nineteen UC-Hastings Law Faculty Object To University Statement In Support Of Free Speech After Ilya Shapiro Shoutdown

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2022 22 Comments

"the Administration's community email, The College is Committed to Academic Freedom and Free Speech, does not represent our priorities"

Ilya Shapiro Shouted Down, Prevented From Speaking At UC-Hastings Law School: “Get Out!”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2022 104 Comments

Relentless pounding on tables and yelling caused event to be halted: "We want you off this campus, that's what we want... We don't want to hear from you... Get out!"

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Appeals Court Judge James Ho: “if Ilya Shapiro is deserving of cancellation, then you should go ahead and cancel me too”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2022 33 Comments

Responding to Georgetown Law cancel culture: "I stand with Ilya on the paramount importance of color-blindness. And that same principle should apply ... [to] receiving an appointment to the highest court in the land.... And so, if Ilya Shapiro is deserving of cancellation, then you should go ahead and cancel me too."

Prof. Glenn Loury’s “Ilya Shapiro Moment” – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion “at the US Supreme Court is a very bad idea”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2022 9 Comments

"Sorry, but practicing "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" at the US Supreme Court is a very bad idea. The Court should not be thought of as a 'representative' institution. So, go ahead and cancel me, too, for my 'Ilya Shapiro moment'!"

Ilya Shapiro To Whoopi: “Let’s Talk … We Have To Disrupt This Toxic Cultural Moment In Favor Of Free Speech”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2022 23 Comments

Shapiro Takes On The Mantle of Academic Freedom and Free Speech Advocate As Efforts To Cancel Him Continue

Stifling Debate And Purging Dissenters At Georgetown Law Over Ilya Shapiro

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 02, 2022 32 Comments

Nate Hochman: "Campus groups ban dissent, professors lead Zoom therapy sessions, and some students privately admit that 'we only want Ilya fired because of his conservative political views.'"

Georgetown Law Student Protesters Demand Ilya Shapiro Firing, Reparations, Place To Cry, End To “Originalist” Center

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2022 81 Comments

There seems to be a pre-existing unhappiness at Georgetown Law that erupted with Shapiro's tweets the spark. "One student floated the idea of defunding the Center for the Constitution.... Another pressed Treanor on why the Center existed at all, given the originalist views of its director, Randy Barnett.“

Profile In Cowardice: Georgetown Law Dean Bill Treanor Suspends Conservative Legal Scholar Ilya Shapiro

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2022 49 Comments

"Georgetown’s embarrassing capitulation [to the "online outrage"] is antithetical to the tenets of liberal education.... Dean William Treanor has made the wrong decision in authorizing this witch hunt, and every day that it continues is an affront to free speech and fairness at Georgetown," wrote the Foundation for Individual Rights In Education in a statement responding to the suspension.

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Ilya Shapiro Resigns From Georgetown Law, Blames Dean William Treanor For Embracing Anti-Free Expression “Hostile Work Environment”

Ilya Shapiro Returning To Georgetown Law After Suspension Over SCOTUS Nomination Tweet Lifted

Nineteen UC-Hastings Law Faculty Object To University Statement In Support Of Free Speech After Ilya Shapiro Shoutdown

Ilya Shapiro Shouted Down, Prevented From Speaking At UC-Hastings Law School: “Get Out!”

Appeals Court Judge James Ho: “if Ilya Shapiro is deserving of cancellation, then you should go ahead and cancel me too”

Prof. Glenn Loury’s “Ilya Shapiro Moment” – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion “at the US Supreme Court is a very bad idea”

Ilya Shapiro To Whoopi: “Let’s Talk … We Have To Disrupt This Toxic Cultural Moment In Favor Of Free Speech”

Stifling Debate And Purging Dissenters At Georgetown Law Over Ilya Shapiro

Georgetown Law Student Protesters Demand Ilya Shapiro Firing, Reparations, Place To Cry, End To “Originalist” Center

Profile In Cowardice: Georgetown Law Dean Bill Treanor Suspends Conservative Legal Scholar Ilya Shapiro

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