STANFORD LAW SCHOOL DIVERSITY DEAN SUSPENDED

By Bob Walsh

Associate Dean Steinbach stepped in during the screaming, but instead of calming the students down, she started lecturing Judge Duncan for six minutes using prepared not

 

The Stanford Law School dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion who participated in and encouraged the heckling of a federal judge who had been invited to speak at the school was suspended last month.  (I was out of town when this happened so did not write about it in a more timely manner.)

The target of this harassment was Stuart Kyle Duncan, Judge of the U. S. 5th Circuit.  He was appointed by Donald Trump in 2018 and is generally considered to be conservative.  

The Associate Dean for Diversity, Tirien Steinbach, announced among other things that the judge's mere presence at the school was "painful" for some of the students.  

Law school dean Jenny Martinez wrote (in a ten-page letter) that the administrators of Stanford Law had failed to enforce the school's speech policy which specifically prohibits shouting down and heckling speakers.

It has not been announced yet how long Tirien Steinbach's suspension will last, or if that has even been determined yet.  None of the students involved have faced nor apparently will face disciplinary action.