(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Newly famous Fifth Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan will continue to honor his university speaking schedule, despite having recently been shouted down by left-wing activists at Stanford Law School.
Duncan accepted an invitation from the conservative Federalist Society to speak at the University of Notre Dame, which made the announcement in a recent statement, the Washington Times reported.
“The event is co-sponsored by Notre Dame’s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government, the Notre Dame Law School’s Federalist Society Chapter, and the Federalist Society Freedom of Thought Project,” the university wrote.
Appropriately, Duncan’s talk will be titled “Free Speech and Legal Education in Our Liberal Democracy.”
It remains to be seen how campus leftists will respond.
Judge Duncan was met by over 100 student protesters as he tried to deliver his remarks at Stanford on March 9.
When he asked an administrator to step in to quiet the students down, Tirien Steinbach, Stanford Law’s associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion came to the front and delivered prepared remarks in opposition to Duncan, who would later describe the event as a “struggle session” based upon “public shaming.”
The Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martinez issued a soft apology before university President Marc Tessier–Lavigne forced her to sign on to a more serious apology.
“What happened was inconsistent with our policies on free speech, and we are very sorry about the experience you had while visiting our campus,” they wrote.
The administrators also added that they were “taking steps to ensure that something like this does not happen again,” but declined to articulate those steps in any detail.
They also committed to doing “better to ensure” that freedom of speech is protected, “even in polarized times.”
None of the riotous Stanford Law students have been punished for their antics.
