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...write because the chilling effects of hate speech against any minority group are felt by all minority groups. We extend our sympathy to the individuals who have been personally affected by these attacks. First-year students have been angered, shocked, and left in tears by these incidents. Their sense of community, if not shattered, is severely strained. It is difficult to engage other students in the classroom when individuals in your class have anonymously attacked your racial, ethnic or religious group. The anonymous aspect of these attacks is especially egregious because it discourages open intellectual debate and allows individuals...
Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60 announced that he will give teaching responsibilities for his first-year torts class to Dean of the J.D. Program Todd D. Rakoff ’67 and another professor...
...move comes in the wake of student criticism of Nesson following his offer to defend Matthias Scholl, a first-year law student who sent an e-mail to a classmate in which he defended the use of the word “nigger...
Earlier this month he received criticism for a proposal that there be a mock trial for Matthias Scholl, a first-year law student who sent an e-mail to a classmate defending the use of the word “nigger...
...little more than two weeks ago, a first-year law student at Harvard Law School (HLS) sent an agressive anonymous email to a classmate who had previously attacked an HLS website for referring to blacks using the term “nigs.” Although the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) decried the use of the term, other students defended his right to refer to black people using that word or any other. Since then, flyers with anti-black and anti-Semitic statements have been anonymously distributed around the Law School...