Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Stanford Law Dean Martinez's letter to the SLS community about the disruption of Judge Duncan's talk
It's a very methodical and substantial letter, worth reading by Deans and other academic administrators faced with situations like this. The Associate Dean who contributed to the disruption of the event is currently on leave. Individual students will not be disciplined because of the difficulty of identifying the perpetrators, and because the administrator present exacerbated the disruption rather than instructing students correctly about university rules. (Dean Martinez's explanation is more nuanced than this simple summary suggests.)
The Dean also alludes, more than once, to the threats and abuse directed at members of the Stanford community in the wake of the media coverage. It would be nice if law enforcement actually went after those making unlawful threats: those people are as bad or worse for the functioning of society than the disruptive students.
https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2023/03/stanford-law-dean-martinezs-letter-to-the-sls-community-about-the-disruption-of-judge-duncans-talk.html