After four months in limbo, libertarian legal scholar Ilya Shapiro is reinstated at Georgetown Law,…
Just The News by Greg Piper
After more than four months in limbo, constitutional law professor Ilya Shapiro has been cleared to take the reins of Georgetown Law’s Center for the Constitution.
The university had placed the libertarian legal scholar on paid leave in January for his clumsily worded “lesser black woman” tweet about President Biden’s pledge to consider only black women in his search for a successor to retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
Dean William Treanor told the community that its diversity and HR offices “have now completed” their investigations, finding that Shapiro wasn’t an employee when he tweeted and was thus not bound by the law school’s nondiscrimination and anti-harassment policies…
