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.




I’m not a philosopher, just a mathematician who reads a lot. I do work in AI, though, and I hope…