‘Dean is a woke joke’

Ex-law prof: Stanford should sack her

Stanford Law School should not have catered to a “woke mob” that derailed a lecture given by a Donald Trump-appointed federal judge, and should fire the dean who led it, a former law professor insists.

Ex-Georgetown University law prof Ilya Shapiro told Fox News that Stanford hindered free speech by shutting down the March 9 event featuring Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan.

Tirien Steinbach, the school’s associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion, along with student protesters, heckled the jurist during his lecture.

He was unable to finish and was escorted off campus by federal marshals.

“University officials . . . are spineless cowards unwilling to enforce their own rules when they’re violated by students, much less administrators,” Shapiro said.

“People should be allowed to protest . . . but hecklers shutting down events, that does not counter free speech,” Shapiro scoffed. “That imposes on others’ free speech.”

Steinbach went on a tirade against Duncan, making it clear his presence on campus wasn’t welcome.

“It’s uncomfortable to say this to you as a person. It’s uncomfortable to say that for many people here, your work has caused harm,” Steinbach charged during the judge’s attempt to speak to Stanford’s chapter of the conservative Federalist Society.

Worked for ACLU

Steinbach, a former program officer at the American Civil Liberties Union, talked at length about her commitment to free speech but didn’t give the judge a chance to speak.

“This event is tearing the fabric of this community that I care about and I’m here to support,” Steinbach said.

“For many people at the law school who work here, who study here, and who live here, your advocacy, your opinions from the bench, land as absolute disenfranchisement of their rights.’’

Shapiro called the whole incident “appalling” and called for Steinbach’s firing.

“She did not enforce the school’s policy,” Shapiro said. “It’s for the dereliction of duty that she should be fired, not her speech.”

Stanford’s campus disruption policies states the university supports its students’ right to protest viewpoints they disagree with, as long as their protest doesn’t “prevent or disrupt the effective carrying out of a University function.”