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Commentary By Ilya Shapiro

Judge Ho’s Yale Boycott Is the Best Idea Yet for Pushing Back on Illiberal Law Schools

Governance Civil Justice

It’s been three weeks since 5th Circuit Judge James Ho fired his shot heard 'round the legal world — and the reverberations continue.

Ho announced that he would no longer hire clerks from Yale, which many consider the nation’s preeminent law school, because of its unwillingness to promote freedom of speech, its enabling of mobs who shout down speakers, and its hiring of deans who punish those who deviate from ever-leftward-shifting progressive orthodoxy. (The speech in which Judge Ho presented his bill of indictment and issued his edict has now been published by the Texas Review of Law and Politics .)

Continue reading the full article at the Washington Examiner

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Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on Twitter here

This piece originally appeared in Washington Examiner