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Amy Wax - Professor of Law At U-Penn, Banned By Dean For Free Speech, Violating Principles Of Academic Freedom - Mscs Media #320

Jun 15, 2023
01:12:48

Amy Wax, a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School. Wax has been on Tucker Carleson, Pubslihed in the Wall St Journal and more. Professor Wax was banned from teaching required first-year courses. Dean Ruger has consistently said Wax cannot be fired because she is tenured due to his dismay. Campus free speech groups have said sanctioning Wax would violate the principles of academic freedom. This would set a new, president for professors & others alike. The nonprofit Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has also come to Wax’ defense. Penn's law students had circulated a petition calling for the school to take action against Wax, citing her as stating "offensive" statements. Her book  Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century is available at https://a.co/d/aPIWxg8

Amy Wax’s work addresses issues in social welfare law and policy as well as the relationship of the family, the workplace, and labor markets. Wax has and impeccable background, bringing to bear her training in biomedical sciences and appellate practice as well as her interest in economic analysis, Wax has developed a uniquely insightful approach to problems in her areas of expertise. Wax has been published widely in law journals, addressing liberal theory and welfare work requirements, as well as the economics of federal disability laws. Current works in progress include articles on same-sex marriage, disparate impact theory and group demographics, rational choice and family structure, and the law and neuroscience of deprivation. Her most recent book is Race, Wrongs, and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century (Hoover Institution Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). Wax has received the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course and the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. As an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wax argued 15 cases before the United States Supreme Court.


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