Georgetown Law Professor Quits Over Anti-Free Speech Environment: ‘I Won’t Live This Way’

Georgetown Law Professor Quits Over Anti-Free Speech Environment: ‘I Won’t Live This Way’
A student studies in the sunshine at Georgetown University in Washington, on March 9, 2021. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Bill Pan
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A constitutional law professor at Georgetown University said he no longer wants to work at the institution, which had suspended him for months for questioning race and gender criteria used by the Biden administration in its selection of Supreme Court justices.

Ilya Shapiro, who was recently permitted to assume his post as executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, said on Monday that the university has created a work environment so hostile that it’s practically impossible for him to express his views.