Thursday, February 3, 2022
More Commentary On The Ilya Shapiro Controversy At Georgetown
- ABA Journal, Georgetown Law Places New Hire on Administrative Leave After 'Lesser Black Woman' Tweet
- Above the Law, Supreme Court Vacancy Inspires All Sorts Of Awful
- Academic Freedom Alliance, Letter to Georgetown Law on Ilya Shapiro (press release)
- Business Insider, Georgetown Law Students Staged a Sit-In to Demand Firing Of Academic Who Said Biden Would Name a 'Lesser Black Woman' to SCOTUS
- Breitbart, Georgetown Considers Implementing ‘Cry Room’ for Students Offended by Law Prof Ilya Shapiro’s Tweets
- Daily Beast, Georgetown Students Stage Sit-In Over Law School Exec’s Tweets
- Paul Horwitz (Alabama), Some Side Notes on One of the Controversies of the Day
- Hot Air, Georgetown Law Students Silence Anyone Who Defends Ilya Shapiro
- David Kopel (Volokh Conspiracy), Georgetown Law's Actions Against Ilya Shapiro Lack Credibility
- Law.com, National Bar Association Calls for Ilya Shapiro's Firing as Backlash Over Tweet Heats Up
- Law360, Bar Group Wants Prof Fired For 'Lesser Black Woman' Tweets
- Lawprofblawg (Anonymous Professor, Top 100 Law School), On Earth 2
- National Review, Georgetown Law Students Stage Sit-In, Demand Dean Fire Ilya Shapiro
- National Review, Inside Georgetown Law’s Campaign to Cancel Ilya Shapiro: ‘This Is Melting Down’
- National Review, Snowflakes Should Not Be in Law School
- PJ Media, Georgetown Law Dean Grovels Before Black Activists Protesting Shapiro
- Reuters, From Georgetown to Yale, Free Speech Controversies Roil Top Law Schools
- Glenn Reynolds (Tennessee), I Had Foolishly Expected Better
- Robert Shibley (FIRE), A Chance To Cancel Cancel Culture
- Spectator World, A Law School Excommunicates a Heretic
- Washington Examiner, Ilya Shapiro Has Exposed the Rot Within Georgetown
- Washington Examiner, Woke Georgetown Law School Disserves Its Students By Infantilizing Them
- Eugene Volokh (UCLA), Academic Freedom and Debate About Race-Based Appointments, Hiring, Admissions, Etc.
- Keith Whittington (Princeton), Academic Freedom Alliance Letter to Georgetown University Law Center
Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:
- Ilya Shapiro, On Heels Of Georgetown Law Hiring, Faces Uproar Over Tweeting That Biden's SCOTUS Pick Will Be A 'Lesser Black Woman' (Jan. 28, 2022)
- Georgetown BLSA Demands Incoming Professor's Job Offer Be Rescinded Over Tweet That Biden's SCOTUS Pick Will Be A 'Lesser Black Woman' (Jan. 31, 2021)
- NY Times: Georgetown Suspends Lecturer Who Criticized Biden's Vow To Put Black Woman On Supreme Court (Feb. 1, 2022)
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