Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
2401 12th Street NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
2401 12th Street NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
Free Speech, DEI, and the Crisis in Legal Education
New Mexico Lawyers Chapter
Join the New Mexico Lawyers Chapter and the RIo Grande Foundation for a luncheon!
Featuring:
- Ilya Shapiro. Director of Constitutional Studies, The Manhattan Institute
February 21, 2025
12:00PM-1:00PM
Doors Open at 11:45AM
Doors Open at 11:45AM
In the past, Columbia Law School produced leaders like Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and several Supreme Court justices. Now it produces window-smashing activists. This cannot continue. Ilya Shapiro will discuss how the illiberal takeover of legal education is transforming our country. Unless we stop it now, the consequences will be with us for decades.
The problem is bigger than radical students and biased faculty—it’s institutional weakness. Shapiro met the mob firsthand when he posted a controversial tweet that led to calls for his firing from Georgetown Law. A four-month investigation eventually cleared him on a technicality but declared that if he offended anyone in the future, he’d create a “hostile educational environment” and be subject to the inquisition again. Unable to do the job he was hired for, he resigned.
Ilya Shapiro will discuss how we got here and what we can do about it and his new book, Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites.
Registration:
$30-40
Click "Register" for more information.
Lunch included.
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