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More controversy at Berkeley Law

Students are protesting a class on "anti-semitism and law" by leading corporate law expert Steven Davidoff Solomon, primarily because of an op-ed he wrote encouraging employers not to hire his "anti-semitic" students.  Let me comment on this purely from the standpoint of the academic freedom rights of faculty:  (1) Davidoff's op-ed was inappropriate:  as we noted in the Amy Wax case, faculty have no academic freedom right to destroy the professional prospects of their students based on gross generalizations; (2) students at a public university have a constitutional right to protest a class, but not in the class itself; disruption of the class itself should be grounds for discipline.

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