Embittered Stanford Law group deplores university's “White supremacist practices”

Following an incident that overwhelmingly united people nationwide in favor of free speech, some still believe Stanford Law Dean Martinez's apt apology wasn't worth the squeeze. The Washington Free Beacon explains how Stanford's Black Law Students Association will now boycott college events for, in their words, scapegoating DEI Dean Steinbach and marginalizing Black students.

Stanford University's Black Law Students Association will no longer help the university recruit black students after the law school's dean, Jenny Martinez, apologized in early March to Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan.

The students cited what they described as the "scapegoating" of the school's diversity dean, Tirien Steinbach, for an incident last month in which students disrupted Duncan's remarks and Steinbach egged them on.

"The apology was intimately aligned with White supremacist practices," the group's board wrote in a letter to the administration, which was posted on Instagram earlier this month. "We cannot, in good faith, participate in recruiting Black students into a community more concerned with palliating wealthy, White conservative donors than the 'student-focused and community-inspired' legal education [Stanford Law School] promotes."

As such, the group said it would "boycott official admit events" for the class of 2026 and encourage prospective students to go elsewhere. It's the second boycott to which the law school has been subjected: James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, the circuit court judges who said last year that they would no longer hire clerks from Yale Law School, earlier this month announced a similar clerkship moratorium on Stanford, citing the school's refusal to punish the students who shouted down Duncan.

This article originally appeared in the Washington Free Beacon. Read the whole thing here.

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