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...representative of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA), at a Nov. 18 town hall meeting, suggested that the committee expand the Law School’s anti-harassment code in order to shield students from future racial insensitivity. Because the Law School’s code already proscribes actions that constitute racial harassment, the BLSA’s request must target speech. Any expanded harassment policy that would cover more than actions, regardless of what one chooses to call it, amounts to a speech code and therefore subverts the principles of the First Amendment. If enacted, it would...
...school faculty expressed concern at the proposal yesterday, and the chair of the subcommittee Clark charged with drafting a potential policy on harasssment expressed reservations about the BLSA plan’s prospects...
...turn, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz led critics of the BLSA statement and challenged the group to clarify what would constitute harrassment...
Last spring, the BLSA called for Law School Dean Robert C. Clark to punish Professor of Law M. David Rosenberg for telling students that “feminism, Marxism and the blacks have contributed nothing” to tort law. In a separate incident, one student had posted the epithet “nig” to a class website...
Committee member Lacey A. Schwartz, a third-year law student who also serves on the BLSA, defended the group’s statement. She said yesterday that calling a potential racial harassment policy a “speech code” was a “mischaracterization” offered by opponents of any anti-harassment statement...