Lawless

The Miseducation of America's Elites

Ilya Shapiro

• Publisher: Broadside e-books
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9780063336582
• eBook ISBN: 9780063336599
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

In the past, Columbia Law School produced leaders like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now it produces window-smashing activists.

When protestors at Columbia broke into a build­ing and created illegal encampments, the student-led Columbia Law Review demanded that finals be canceled because of “distress.”

Law 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:

• Be America’s judges, DAs, and prosecutors
• File and fight constitutional lawsuits
• Advise Fortune 500 companies
• Hire other left-wing diversity candidates to staff law firms and government offices
• Run for higher office with an agenda of only enforcing laws that suit left-wing whims

In Lawless, 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. 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.

This cannot continue. In Lawless, Shapiro reveals how the illib­eral takeover of legal education is transforming our country. Unless we stop it now, the consequences will be with us for decades.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Law Schools Shape Our Society
• Chapter 2: The Online Mob Takes No Prisoners
• Chapter 3: Campus Inquisitors Aren’t Interested in Truth, Just Convictions
• Chapter 4: Cancellation Is About Power, Not Accountability
• Chapter 5: The Problem Isn’t Just Ideology but Bureaucracy
• Chapter 6: How a Pyrrhic Victory Revealed That the Game Is Rigged
• Chapter 7: The New Activism Is Incompatible with the Rule of Law
• Chapter 8: The ABA Versus Truth, Justice, and the Supreme Court
• Chapter 9: The Stanford Shutdown and the Importance of Deans
• Chapter 10: Who Defines Diversity Defines the Future
• Chapter 11: Critical Theory Destroys the Law
• Chapter 12: Covid Regulations Normalized Illogical Thinking
• Chapter 13: Abolish DEI Bureaucracies to Restore Colorblind Diversity
• Chapter 14: A Culture of Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity Doesn’t Happen by Itself
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Annotated Appendix A: Dean Treanor’s Letter Reinstating Me
• Annotated Appendix B: IDEAA Confidential Report
• Appendix C: My Resignation Letter
• Sources
• Index
• About the Author
• Also by Ilya Shapiro
• Copyright
• About the Publisher