☆ FedSoc pres: If heckling students held accountable, Stanford Law hiring boycott can end
Stanford Law's Federalist Society student president Tim Rosenberger, Jr. speaks to why a few prominent judges have announced they will stop hiring Stanford Law grads. Some are worried this effect will snowball, as with recent years' Yale Law blacklisting. Stanford's solution, according to TRJ, must involve thoughtful hiring and student discipline decisions. An exclusive from Opp Now, the only local publication covering the Stanford Law circus fully.
Opportunity Now: Well, it's happened: Stanford has been added to Circuit Judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch's list of law schools they won't hire from. Do you think this has anything to do with Stanford Law's lax position on disciplining students' disruptive behavior?
Tim Rosenberger, Jr.: Judge Ho’s statement suggests that more accountability could have averted this decision.
ON: How, in your opinion, can the law school now regain its rapidly declining prestige?
TRJ: Stanford still has the bones of a great law school. Judge Ho provided a blueprint for salvaging Stanford Law School, starting with aggressive hiring of originalist faculty and right of center staff.
There’s much work to be done, but our Federalist Society Chapter and I stand ready to work to help Stanford Law School reach its full potential and end this boycott.
This article is part of an Opp Now series on the Stanford Law free speech scandal—and its aftermath:
Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan was shouted down last week at a Stanford Law School event, and the disruption was supported by Associate Dean of DEI Tirien Steinbach. David Lat's exceptional Original Jurisdiction has the whole story here.
Tim Rosenberger, Jr., president of Stanford Law’s Federalist Society chapter, breaks down Stanford’s dangerously “comfort”-driven student/faculty culture.
Campus Reform reports that a group of Stanford students are urging the university to dismiss DEI Dean Steinbach.
In the wake of Stanford University’s free speech colloquies, Daniel McCarthy of the NY Post digs into Leftism’s aversion to differences.
Opp Now analyzes Stanford Law’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Spoiler alert: They, and heckler-sympathizer Dean Steinbach, may not be doing all that much.
TXEER Politics and Religion Board user pvbmtnr considers the binary thinking separating free speech and DEI—as especially located in Dean Steinbach’s WSJ defense piece.
John Banzhaf is brandishing the potentially career-killing threat of bar complaints against Stanford Law students who heckled federal judge Kyle Duncan.
Reason's Josh Blackman unravels how DEI has stuck its nose into all issues possibly correlated with discrimination (big surprise: it's most of them).
Campus Reform breaks down DEI Dean Steinbach's rampant—and easily accessible—history of opposing law enforcement, criminal justice systems, and, yes, the “patriarchy.”
Stanford's Federalist Society student org president Tim Rosenberger, Jr. discusses how labeling all nonconformists as “far-right” is divisive.
Althouse explains why these university scandals continue happening: As the extremists get louder, the moderates get quieter.
After Stanford's free speech disaster, many are questioning if DEI jobs belong in education, including past USD board runner Zoila Herrera Rollins.
The Free Press’s Bari Weiss unpacks why we should pay attention to universities’ free speech incidents: Young people are powerfully shaping our institutions—and our collective future.
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