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Leiter on Yoo

Brian Leiter writes:

“American Freedom Campaign” Organizing E-Mail-Campaign to Fire John Yoo

The details about this disgraceful attack on the academy and tenure are here.  Professor Yoo holds morally reprehensible views and his legal work on the so-called “torture memos” was obviously shoddy.  Neither consideration constitutes grounds for terminating the employment of a tenured law professor.  Tenure, and academic freedom, would mean nothing if every professor with views deemed morally reprehensible or every professor who produced a shoddy piece of work--while inside or outside the academy--could be fired.  I find it almost unbelievable that a group calling itself “American Freedom Campaign” does not understand this.  (Have they already forgotten the case of Professor Churchill?) I had previously thought well of the work of the American Freedom Campaign, but this latest stunt is a disgrace and I am removing myself from its e-mail lists.

Go read the whole thing. Leiter rocks.