by Jane Coleman at legalinsurrection.com
Wax filing: “The Dean’s charges are nothing more than an attempt to use the sanction process … as a means of punishing and silencing the most powerful dissenting voice on campus and preventing students from being exposed to important conservative ideas.”
Wax filing: “The Dean’s charges are nothing more than an attempt to use the sanction process … as a means of punishing and silencing the most powerful dissenting voice on campus and preventing students from being exposed to important conservative ideas.”
Dissident UPenn Law Professor Amy Wax and her lawyer, David Shapiro, have taken the offensive in the University’s battle to terminate her by filing a Grievance against law school Dean Ted Ruger with the Faculty Grievance Commission.
The Grievance, submitted simultaneously with a major reply memorandum, is a potentially game-changing development in the proceedings instituted by Dean Ruger over six months ago.
As Shapiro put it when we spoke this week, “Amy Wax has gone from being defendant to charging party in her own case.”
We’ve been covering Wax’s conflict with PennLaw from the very beginning, when she triggered the woke campus mob by unapologetically expressing conservative views in a 2017 op-ed:
- Students Demand Denunciation and Investigation of Professors: 1966 China or 2017 U. Penn?
- Academic Freedom Alliance Comes to Defense of U. Penn Prof Amy Wax, Who was Threatened With Sanctions For Wrongthink
- Paul du Quenoy: Penn Law Professor Amy Wax Deserves Our Support
- Roger Kimball: “for stating such obvious truths” Prof. Amy Wax “is being dragged into the Star Chamber at Penn”
- How A Weak Penn Law Dean Weaponized Student Hurt Feelings Against Dissident Prof. Amy Wax
- U Penn Law Prof. Amy Wax Seeks Dismissal Of University Disciplinary Proceedings: “Premature, Unwarranted, and Prejudicial”
As we reported in September, rather than engage her in discussion and debate, students and faculty demanded that an all-too-willing Dean Ruger fire her for being a “racist.”
And that, says Shapiro, is what makes Wax’s case “sui generis”: The University is trying to fire a tenured professor for her speech.