You are here

Back to top

The People V. Harvard Law: How America's Oldest Law School Turned Its Back on Free Speech (Hardcover)

The People V. Harvard Law: How America's Oldest Law School Turned Its Back on Free Speech Cover Image
$25.95
Usually Ships in 1-5 Days

Description


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 student dissent. Thomas also ventures brilliantly off campus to reveal how what happens at Harvard Law affects the nation whose most powerful institutions are filled with its graduates.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781893554986
ISBN-10: 1893554988
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication Date: May 1st, 2005
Pages: 221
Language: English