This is CBS I On The World. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Richard Epstein, a legal scholar.

And watching the troubles of the Supreme Court in Israel, we turn to watching the troubles

of Stanford Law School, Richard is an esteemed member of the Hoover Institution on the campus

of Stanford University, which is a much admired school of higher education, very high education.

Stanford Law School these last days has been troubled by an event, some of which is in video,

some of which is in protest going on all the time.

Turning on the appearance of a federal judge from the Fifth Circuit, I believe, and

protest by Stanford Law students that were not meant to be dissent, were meant to be disruption

to the point of the judge not being able to speak to an invited event.

Professor again, I think the link with the Israeli story is that this is politics,

masquerading as legal scholarship. Do you agree?

I don't think there's any pretense as legal scholarship.

It is in fact that an intensely political movement, which has a very strong view of the way in which the world ought to be organized.

And their own view is that they are protected in two ways.

One, they can say anything they want about anybody else, now how abusive it turns out to be.

Because when you know you have the truth on the substance of issues, you're allowed to use all means to defend it.

And on the other hand, what you're entitled to do is to have a hypersensitivity so that the moment somebody says something that offends anything that you believe,

that becomes the cause or justification for launching this all out of war.

And so this particular judge had taken some fairly strong positions on the question is how malleable

pronouns turn out to be? Can a woman decide to call herself day and force everybody else in speech to follow?

And he said, no, I happen to agree with him on the substance.

I think people have generally brought rice to choose their own names, but that pronouns in order to work in a language have to be uniform and accepted by everybody.

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