freebeacon.com ‘Dean Chemerinsky’s email is wrong, and we will be addressing the issue with the university,’ Brandeis Center lawyer Paul Eckles says
A Jewish legal advocacy group is accusing the University of California, Berkeley’s law school dean of violating the terms of a just-announced settlement that resolved a lawsuit challenging student group bylaws that barred speakers based on their Jewish, Israeli, or Zionist identities.
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law announced Thursday that Berkeley agreed to settle the lawsuit, which the group filed in November 2023 alongside the center’s Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education organization, whose members include Berkeley Law professors and Berkeley students. They accused the school of allowing student organizations to pass bylaws that banned speakers who supported Israel or Zionism.
The settlement, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, states that the law school’s registered student groups cannot “include prohibitions on speakers” in their bylaws and constitutions, nor can they “limit officers, board members, or speakers based on a category that is protected under federal or state law.” Berkeley agreed to implement mandatory faculty training on anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli discrimination and publish a statement on its website noting that “bans on Zionists have historically been used by some individuals and institutions as a pretext for excluding Jews.”
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