Law students blast professor for inviting white nationalist to speak on campus

12 September 2023

Controversial University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School professor Amy Wax is under fire for inviting white nationalist Jared Taylor to give a lecture on campus in November "for the second time in two years," The Philadelphia Inquirer's Beatrice Foreman reports.

"Wax — who is embroiled in disciplinary proceedings over a lengthy history of racist, homophobic, and xenophobic remarks made on campus and to the media — invited Taylor to speak to a Nov. 28 meeting of her 'Conservative and Political Legal Thought' class on the US radical right, according to a syllabus first obtained by the Daily Pennsylvanian," Forman writes.

"Taylor founded New Century Foundation, the nonprofit behind American Renaissance, which is a publication the Southern Poverty Law Center has called a promoter of eugenics and deemed a hate group. In his own words, Taylor has 'spent 25 years patiently establishing the factual and moral bases for discrimination,'" Forman continues. "Taylor wrote The Color of Crime, which perpetuates unsubstantiated claims to argue that Black people are inherently criminal. His dogma was cited in the manifesto of Dylann Roof, who was convicted of murdering nine Black members and attempting to kill three others at an African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina in 2015."

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Forman recalls that "Taylor has lectured on pseudoscientific differences between white people and people of color at Temple University Beasley Law School in 1993, as well as Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, and Arizona State University, where students protested last year."

Student-led organizations, Forman notes, are quite displeased and pushing school administrators for action.

Council of Student Representatives President Vinila Varghese told Forman that she is "very confused about what he can offer to a class … He's a known white nationalist. He exists in circles of neo-Nazis. I don't know what type of informative or evidence-based conversation he could have, but that falls in line with Amy Wax. Nothing she says is based on actual data."

Varghese, along with Carey Black Law Students Association co-President Chioma Uba, believes that Wax is seeking attention.

Forman adds that "The Asian Pacific American Law Students Association and Black Law Students Associations have said they are discussing ways to condemn Wax’s continued presence on campus. The law school's Latinx Law Students Association also released a statement urging 'Penn Carey Law administration to bar Taylor from stepping on campus.'"

Forman's full scoop is available at this link.

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