"This is a breathtaking thread from a law professor"...
The complaint letter charges CUNY Law discriminates against students, faculty, other employees, and prospective students, faculty, and employees, and that the law school faculty’s recently-adopted BDS policy puts the school out of compliance with ABA req'ts. Meanwhile, NYC Council Higher Ed Committee grills CUNY over...
"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Treanor cleared me on the technicality that I wasn’t an employee when I tweeted, but the [DEI Office] implicitly repealed Georgetown’s Speech and Expression Policy and set me up for discipline the next time I transgress progressive orthodoxy.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...
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...
“when the mob is right, some (but not all!) more aggressive tactics are justified. When not, not.”...
David Lat: "Students in Federal Courts, across the hall from the event, reported that 'the floor was shaking' and Professor Resnik asked on-call students to 'yell' so they could be heard over the din."...
Kristen Waggoner of Alliance Defending Freedom: "These students were not only physically intimidating the other students and the speakers, they were pounding on the walls, blocking the exits, and disrupting the event throughout"...
This is just more evidence of the decline of legal education and the collapse of values. "Social justice" and feelings trump free speech and debate....
"the Administration's community email, The College is Committed to Academic Freedom and Free Speech, does not represent our priorities"...
Relentless pounding on tables and yelling caused event to be halted: "We want you off this campus, that's what we want...
Responding to Georgetown Law cancel culture: "I stand with Ilya on the paramount importance of color-blindness. And that same principle should apply ...
"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'!"...
Shapiro Takes On The Mantle of Academic Freedom and Free Speech Advocate As Efforts To Cancel Him Continue...
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.'"...
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...
"Georgetown’s embarrassing capitulation [to the "online outrage"] is antithetical to the tenets of liberal education...
