The People V Harvard Law: How America¿s Oldest Law School Turned Its Back on Free Speech

by Andrew Peyton Thomas

Overview

In 2002, Kiwi Camara, a Filipino-American at Harvard Law School, joined most of his classmates in posting his class outlines for the previous year on the school web site. Controversy ensued because some found aspects of Camara's shorthand racially insensitive. In response, school administrators proposed a speech code. Harvard Law Graduate Andrew Peyton Thomas uses this controversy to take readers inside the administrative offices, faculty lounges, and classrooms of the nation's oldest and most prestigious law school. He finds freedom of speech and basic constitutional liberties clashing with racial demagogues, Marxist-inspired professors, and a smothering orthodoxy that seeks to silence student dissent. Thomas also ventures brilliantly off campus to reveal how what happens at Harvard Law affects the nation whose most powerful institutions are filled with its graduates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781893554986
Publisher:	Encounter Books
Publication date:	05/01/2005
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.94(w) x 9.22(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Prologue: Property Crimes	1
Chapter 1	Crocodile Hunting	31
Chapter 2	Up in Smoke	47
Chapter 3	The Limits of Tenure	57
Chapter 4	Boneless Bob	65
Chapter 5	Triumph of the Crits	91
Chapter 6	Diversity, Harvard Styl	103
Chapter 7	"Conservatives Should Shut Up about Silencing"	117
Chapter 8	Poetic Injustice	135
Chapter 9	The Socratic Method Becomes a Hate Crime	145
Chapter 10	Worlds Apart	159
Chapter 11	Un-Martial Law	169
Chapter 12	Breaking the Code	179
	Acknowledgments	197
	Notes	199
	Index	211

What People are Saying About This

David Frum

"Andrew Peyton Thomas's inquest into the collapse of Harvard Law School arrives at a blunt verdict: death by suicide, with moral cowardice the ultimate cause. A brutal assessment of the betrayal of liberal ideals by self-styled liberal idealists."
—(Harvard Law '87), author of The Right Man