Law school will not punish students who shouted down conservative scholar

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Law school will not punish students who shouted down conservative scholar

After dean pledged to crack down on disruptors, students accused law school of systemic racism

UC Hastings College of the Law will not punish law students who aggressively shouted down a conservative guest speaker earlier in the semester, actions which violated the school’s code of conduct.

Ilya Shapiro, a constitutional law scholar, was shouted down with profanity, insults, chants, desk banging and other measures at a Federalist Society chapter event March 1.

“They screamed obscenities and physically confronted me, several times getting in my face or blocking my access to the lectern, and they shouted down a dean,” Shapiro wrote in The Wall Street Journal.

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