https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/federal-judge-suggests-not-hiring-yale-law-students-who-disrupted-free-speech-event/
That’s huge.
And critically important to the legal profession and society at large. Silberman is the adult in the room, having served in public life since the Nixon administration. And here he is telling these immature law students that if they won’t act like lawyers, they won’t be treated as such in the job market.
Clerkships are considered a steppingstone for young law school graduates who have aspirations of becoming judges themselves, and a clerkship with a high-profile judge like Silberman could lead to a clerkship with a Supreme Court justice, which would be a golden ticket to any future job.
David Lat is a gay-identified lawyer who has written on happenings in the legal world for years. You’d expect that he would be supportive of the disruptive students because of his support for LGBT issues, right?
Wrong. In his article, “Is Free Speech in American Law Schools a Lost Cause?” Lat explores the events at Yale (and an earlier situation at University California at Hastings), and makes this point:
And this:
As Waggoner herself told the Beacon, “Yale Law students are our future attorneys, judges, legislators, and corporate executives,” she said. “We must change course and restore a culture of free speech and civil discourse at Yale and other law schools, or the future of the legal profession in America is in dire straits.”