Stanford law school is “out of compliance” with accreditation standards that require it to promote free speech
Stanford violated that requirement, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce said in a Friday letter to the bar association, by allowing and even encouraging students to shout down Duncan last month. The committee emphasized the remarks of Tirien Steinbach, the law school diversity dean who took the podium from the judge and harangued him for causing “harm.” …
The American Bar Association requires each accredited law school to have a policy promoting academic freedom. Stanford’s policy, outlined in its faculty handbook, states that “the widest range of viewpoints” should be free from “coercion”—a condition the letter says no longer obtains at the law school.
“In no sense can it be said that Stanford Law School adhered to its announced encouragement of the ‘widest range of viewpoints,'” the letter reads. “And in no sense were Judge Duncan’s viewpoints ‘free from … internal or external coercion.'”
