People vs. Harvard Law: How America's Oldest Law School Turned Its Back on Free Speech

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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 ...
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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.
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What People Are Saying

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
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781893554986
  • Publisher: Encounter Books
  • Publication date: 1/28/2005
  • Pages: 210
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Table of Contents

Prologue : property crimes 1
Ch. 1 Crocodile hunting 31
Ch. 2 Up in smoke 47
Ch. 3 The limits of tenure 57
Ch. 4 Boneless Bob 65
Ch. 5 Triumph of the crits 91
Ch. 6 Diversity, Harvard style 103
Ch. 7 "Conservatives should shut up about silencing" 117
Ch. 8 Poetic injustice 135
Ch. 9 The Socratic method becomes a hate crime 145
Ch. 10 Worlds apart 159
Ch. 11 Un-martial law 169
Ch. 12 Breaking the code 179
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