The Tom Woods Show, episode 1162.

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Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Well, here's a newsflash. The law schools are on the left in general.

Well, I think we more or less knew that, but we've got some interesting new details.

Thanks to an article by Mark Pulliam that ran over at Law and Liberty. We'll give you the link to that article at tomwoods.com slash 1162.

And he's talking about an incident we'll get to in a second as a springboard for a more general exploration of what is happening in the law schools

and what's driving it. Because obviously there's one particular point of view, or at least one

way of thinking that seems to be

driving the school administration and that seems to be driving the hiring of faculty, questions like

that. So we're going to hit this sort of stuff today with Mark, who is a contributing editor over

at Law and Liberty, which you can visit, by the way, at

Liberty LawSight.org. He retired from the partnership Latham and Watkins at the end of 2010

after joining in 1981, where he headed the Employment Law Group in that office. He graduated from

the University of Texas Law School in 1980.

He's a member of the California Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of California.

Follow him on Twitter at Misrule of Law.

That's a pretty good Twitter handle. MISR Rule of Law. Mark, welcome to the show.

Good morning, Tom. I'm linking to your article today on the show notes page that you wrote, I don't know, probably some weeks ago now, that had to do with the ideological composition of law schools. This is something that we more or less know about, but I don't think people realize just how bad it is. And you used as a springboard for that analysis, an incident that occurred not too long ago in which you had a dean at a law school, more or less standing up in defense of the heckler's veto against somebody who had come

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