Ilya Shapiro
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and make people aware and so i don't know where this ends uh we have the university of austin for example as an alternative institution just born their first cohort i'll be speaking there later this month they don't have a law school uh but there's centers and institutes starting up in various institutions across the country to teach excellence and rigor and civics all of these things that dei trainers consider to be white supremacist tropes and uh and even deans at yale for example i i uh
tally a lot of Yale's missteps, Yale Law's missteps. Heather Gerken, the dean there, wants to be president of one of the Ivy League institutions. And she recognizes that what's gone on is not good. And so she went out and hired scholars, including a former Alito clerk, to kind of right the ship a little bit.
tally a lot of Yale's missteps, Yale Law's missteps. Heather Gerken, the dean there, wants to be president of one of the Ivy League institutions. And she recognizes that what's gone on is not good. And so she went out and hired scholars, including a former Alito clerk, to kind of right the ship a little bit.
tally a lot of Yale's missteps, Yale Law's missteps. Heather Gerken, the dean there, wants to be president of one of the Ivy League institutions. And she recognizes that what's gone on is not good. And so she went out and hired scholars, including a former Alito clerk, to kind of right the ship a little bit.
So we are seeing some progress, but we need to keep pushing and not accepting this rot, this degradation, this illiberalism in law schools and beyond.
So we are seeing some progress, but we need to keep pushing and not accepting this rot, this degradation, this illiberalism in law schools and beyond.
So we are seeing some progress, but we need to keep pushing and not accepting this rot, this degradation, this illiberalism in law schools and beyond.
I'm hiring. Absolutely. Young lawyers want to come work for the Manhattan Institute. Send your resume.
I'm hiring. Absolutely. Young lawyers want to come work for the Manhattan Institute. Send your resume.
I'm hiring. Absolutely. Young lawyers want to come work for the Manhattan Institute. Send your resume.
Conservatives and libertarians get great training. They are exposed to lots of ideas. They know how to see every different argument. And... You know, this is the this is one of the ironies. These law schools are doing a disservice to their progressive students by not teaching them what the argument is from the other side. And then they go into federal court and they don't know what to do.
Conservatives and libertarians get great training. They are exposed to lots of ideas. They know how to see every different argument. And... You know, this is the this is one of the ironies. These law schools are doing a disservice to their progressive students by not teaching them what the argument is from the other side. And then they go into federal court and they don't know what to do.
Conservatives and libertarians get great training. They are exposed to lots of ideas. They know how to see every different argument. And... You know, this is the this is one of the ironies. These law schools are doing a disservice to their progressive students by not teaching them what the argument is from the other side. And then they go into federal court and they don't know what to do.
They don't know how to argue.
They don't know how to argue.
They don't know how to argue.
Sidebar, Your Honor, I need to cry for a moment.
Sidebar, Your Honor, I need to cry for a moment.
Sidebar, Your Honor, I need to cry for a moment.
They're graduating students who aren't qualified to do much of anything other than to be HR officials or DEI deans or what have you. I hope that some institutions seize on the market opportunity that's created, and I think some are. For example, University of Chicago, University of Virginia are generally better their law schools on these metrics than than Yale and Stanford, for example.