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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...

Georgetown Law Prof Supports Mobs Protesting at Homes of SCOTUS Justices

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 12, 2022 9 Comments

“when the mob is right, some (but not all!) more aggressive tactics are justified. When not, not.”...

Debate: Should American Bar Association Be Stripped Of Its Monopoly Law School Accrediting Power?

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

This morning at 10:40 a.m. through Noon I'll be participating in a panel discussion at The Federalist Society conference on whether the American Bar Association should be stripped of its monopoly power on accrediting law schools in light of mandates recently passed requiring, among other things, race-focused study for law students, and a pending proposal for "equity" focused education initiatives for students and faculty.

“The Floor Was Shaking” – Yale Law School Speaker Disruption Worse Than Originally Reported

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2022 38 Comments

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."...

Conservative Speaker Targeted at Yale Law School: “This wasn’t a protest. This was physical intimidation”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2022 29 Comments

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"...

Yale Law Students Disrupt, Try To Intimidate Conservative Speaker

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2022 54 Comments

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....

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...

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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 ...

American Bar Association Abusing Its Accreditation Power To Force Race-Focused Study On Law Students

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2022 24 Comments

The American Bar Association once was a proxy for the American legal community. That was long, long ago. It has since moved to the left in many ways, so much so that Republicans now reject reliance on ABA judicial-nominee evaluations and ratings. ABA is just another group captured by the long march through institutions.

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...

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...

Emory Law Journal Refuses To Publish Scholarly Article Challenging “Systemic Racism”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2022 45 Comments

"We take issue with your conversation on systemic racism, finding your words hurtful and unnecessarily divisive," wrote the Editors of Emory Law Journal to U. San Diego Law Professor Lawrence Alexander....

Law Prof: Law Schools Operate As “White Spaces”

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 01, 2022 10 Comments

"They are white spaces in what they teach, in how they teach, and even in their architecture."...

The Cruel and Unusual Punishment Of Prof. Jason Kilborn by U. Illinois-Chicago John Marshall Law School

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2021 67 Comments

UIC has imposed a reeducation and supervision program to publicly humiliate and demean a professor that would make the Maoist Red Guards blush. It is psychologically torturing a professor just because it thinks it can....

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