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The People V Harvard Law. How America's Oldest Law School Turned its Back on Free Speech.
Andrew Peyton Thomas
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Hardback. In 2002, Kiwi Camara, joined his classmates in posting his class outlines for the previous year on the Harvard Law School website. But in his notes, Camara used shorthand terms that some regarded as racial slurs. This title presents a portrait of an American institution in crisis that explains how what happens at Harvard Law affects the nation. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 176 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Encounter Books,USA United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781893554986
SKU
V9781893554986
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About Andrew Peyton Thomas
Andrew Peyton Thomas is himself a graduate of the Harvard Law School, and was a legal assistant for the Boston NAACP. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, National Review and other publications. Mr Thomas lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife and three children.
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