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Ilya Shapiro Is Shouted Down At U.C. Hastings

In 2018, I was shouted down at the CUNY Law School in New York. I've written at some length about the experience, including a law review article in the First Amendment Law Review. Still, nearly four years later, the experience remains surreal. It is difficult to convey what it feels…

Reason · Mar 4, 2022

UC Hastings Law Students Silence Conservative Speaker, Demand Anti-Racism Training

"It's too bad that a heckler's veto prevailed here," says Ilya Shapiro.

Reason · Mar 2, 2022

"The Act of Silencing a Speaker Is Fundamentally Contrary to the Values of This School"

From Fox News (Jessica Chasmar): Ilya Shapiro, a constitutional scholar who recently found himself in hot water over a tweet about President Biden's Supreme Court nominee, was shouted down by law students in San Francisco, videos show. Shapiro joined a discussion Tuesday afternoon about Justice Stephen Breyer's Supreme Court vacancy…

Reason · Mar 2, 2022

Georgetown Suspends Ilya Shapiro, Student Protesters Demand Place to Cry

More than 100 law professors agree that "academic freedom protects Shapiro's views."

Reason · Feb 1, 2022

Faculty Letter Against Firing Ilya Shapiro

I don't normally do this sort of thing, but in light of the continued calls to terminate Ilya Shapiro from Georgetown University Law Center because of his tweets last week, I was part of a group of professors who sent the following letter to Georgetown Dean William Treanor. (Signatories include…

Reason · Jan 31, 2022

Limiting Yourself to 7% of the Potential Candidates …

is usually unlikely to yield the best candidate.

Reason · Jan 29, 2022

Constitutional Law and Supreme Court Expert Ilya Shapiro Joins the Georgetown Center for the Constitution

My good friend and colleague moves from the Cato Institute to Georgetown.

Reason · Jan 21, 2022