The shout-down of a Trump-appointed federal judge as he was set to deliver a lecture at Stanford Law School has raised fresh concerns about the caliber of lawyers graduating from the nation's top law schools.
Last week, a group of students and Tirian Steinbach, the Stanford Law School dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion, heckled 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan as he was supposed to deliver a lecture on the judiciary's approach to COVID-19 restrictions and gun laws.The incident is the latest in a string of high-profile protests at law schools.
Nadales said DEI departments like the one led by Steinbach"stand strongly in opposition to freedom of expression [and] freedom of inquiry" and that her presence and participation in the disruption of Duncan's lecture"just shows you the status of academia." When he asked for an administrator to control the situation, Stanford’s “associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion” got up and lectured him for nearly 10 minutes pic.twitter.com/tjlUPOIMmQOn Tuesday, the campus free speech watchdog group Speech First launched a petition that called on the law school to dismiss Steinbach.
The inability of the students to show respect and decorum toward a federal judge worried Stephen Raiola, a Pittsburgh-based attorney, who said if the students could not listen to a lecture by the judge, they would be hard-pressed to represent their future clients effectively. "More and more employers may start to reach the same conclusion that we did last fall — that we have no choice but to stop hiring from these schools in the future," Ho and Branch wrote."At the end of the day, that may be the only way to send a message that will resonate with law schools — judges and other employers imposing consequences on law schools who refuse to impose consequences on their own.
Earlier this month, students at the law school published an open letter condemning the Federalist Society for hosting Erin Hawley, the wife of Sen. Josh Hawley and an attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom.
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