Putting ‘woke’ law schools on trial– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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Law schools are different from other academic institutions. They are the incubators of America’s future elite. When they go wrong, it profoundly affects the wider culture in a way that other institutions do not.
That’s the central point in Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites, the compelling new book by Ilya Shapiro. Shapiro, a lawyer, a veteran of the libertarian Cato Institute, and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, gained fame in 2022 when he was investigated for political incorrectness prior to starting a position as executive director of the Georgetown Law School Center for the Constitution.
Georgetown investigated Shapiro after he posted that Sri Srinivasan, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, would be President Joe Biden’s “best pick” for the Supreme Court. Shapiro added: “But alas [Srinivasan] doesn’t fit into [the] latest intersectionality hierarchy so we’ll get [a] lesser black woman.”
Shapiro’s “lesser black woman” phrasing caused a reaction and led Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor to denounce the post as “appalling” and “at odds with everything we stand for at Georgetown Law.” It completely upended Shapiro’s life.
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