Legal Education,
Law Practice
Dec. 21, 2023
Politics roiled law firms and law schools in 2023
“Legal institutions are always easy boogeymen,” observed Adam D. Winkler, a UCLA School of Law professor with a political science degree, “especially when critics don’t like the way things are going.”
Following widespread student unrest over Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, scores of law firms wrote more than 100 law school deans with a pointed threat: squelch campus calls “for the death of Jews and the elimination of the State of Israel” or kiss lucrative job offers goodbye.
“As employers who recruit from each of your law schools,” the firms warned, antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism or bigotry “would not be tolerated at any of our firms...
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