{"product_id":"9780063336599_lawless","title":"Lawless","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the past, Columbia Law School produced leaders like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now it produces window-smashing activists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen protestors at Columbia broke into a build­ing and created illegal encampments, the student-led \u003ci\u003eColumbia Law Review\u003c\/i\u003e demanded that finals be canceled because of \"distress.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaw schools used to teach students how to think critically, advance logical arguments, and respect oppo­nents. Now those students cannot tolerate disagreement and reject the validity of the law itself. Rioting Ivy Leaguers are the same people who will soon:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBe America’s judges, DAs, and prosecutors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFile and fight constitutional lawsuits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdvise Fortune 500 companies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHire other left-wing diversity candidates to staff law firms and government offices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRun for higher office with an agenda of only enforcing laws that suit left-wing whims\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLawless\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 institu­tional weakness fueled by campus-wide cancel culture. Shapiro met the mob firsthand when he posted a controversial tweet that led to calls for his firing from Georgetown Law. A four-month investi­gation 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 sub­ject to the inquisition again. Unable to do the job he was hired for, he resigned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis cannot continue. In \u003ci\u003eLawless\u003c\/i\u003e, Shapiro reveals how the illib­eral takeover of legal education is transforming our country. Unless we stop the assault on academic freedom now, the consequences will be with us for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ilya Shapiro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46908539273365,"sku":"9780063336599","price":13.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780063336599_4aa6c4ee-a771-4cde-bdb7-707e05ba1cea.jpg?v=1776889898","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780063336599_lawless","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}