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ABA Journal: CUNY Law School Is Latest Front In Culture War

Following up on my previous post, CUNY Law Graduate's Commencement Speech Denouncing Israel And NYPD Is Condemned By Administration; Faculty Demands Apology From Administration (New York Times):  ABA Journal, As Culture Wars Continue, City University of New York School of Law Is Latest Target:

CUNY (2023)A May commencement speech given by a City University of New York School of Law graduate, who criticized Israel and law enforcement, was met with applause. But by the end of the month, she was on the cover of the New York Post with a headline that read: “Stark raving grad.” …

The law school is one of many in the past year to have bad press days, or perhaps bad press weeks, following student activities involving sensitive topics. That includes law schools at Stanford University, the University of Idaho, the University of California at Berkeley and the Georgetown University Law Center. …

Most universities want to see graduation speakers’ remarks before the event, but there’s no guarantee that the speaker will stay on script, according to [Evan Nierman (Co-Author, The Cancel Culture Curse: From Rage to Redemption in a World Gone Mad (2023)]. … Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of University of California at Berkeley School of Law and a Journal contributor, says it would never occur to him to vet a student’s speech. “I would not want to engage in that kind of censorship,” he explains.


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