Lawless

<p><strong>In the past Columbia Law School produced leaders like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now it produces window-smashing activists.</strong></p><p>When protestors at Columbia broke into a build-ing and created illegal encampments the student-led <em>Columbia Law Review </em>demanded that finals be canceled because of distress.</p><p>Law schools used to teach students how to think critically advance logical arguments and respect oppo-nents. Now those students cannot tolerate disagreement and reject the validity of the law itself. Rioting Ivy Leaguers are the same people who will soon: </p><ul>Be America's judges DAs and prosecutors</li>File and fight constitutional lawsuits</li>Advise Fortune 500 companies</li>Hire other left-wing diversity candidates to staff law firms and government offices</li>Run for higher office with an agenda of only enforcing laws that suit left-wing whims</li></ul><br/><p>In <em>Lawless</em> Ilya Shapiro explains how we got here and what we can do about it. The problem is bigger than radical students and biased faculty--it's institu-tional weakness. Shapiro met the mob firsthand when he posted a controversial tweet that led to calls for his firing from Georgetown Law. A four-month investi-gation eventually cleared him on a technicality but declared that if he offended anyone in the future he'd create a hostile educational environment and be sub-ject to the inquisition again. Unable to do the job he was hired for he resigned.</p><p>This cannot continue. In <em>Lawless</em> Shapiro reveals how the illib-eral takeover of legal education is transforming our country. Unless we stop it now the consequences will be with us for decades.</p>