Overview
- UCLA Law’s assistant dean Bayrex Martí told Federalist Society leaders in an April 22 email not to identify students shown in disruption videos, warning such disclosure could lead to student conduct cases.
- The disrupted event featured Department of Homeland Security general counsel James Percival, and students inside the room booed, shouted, played phone ringtones, and allegedly issued threats, according to accounts and video.
- FIRE, a civil liberties group, urged UCLA to retract the warning and said students have a right to share truthful details from a public, recorded event.
- Critics say the school is using a double standard because protesters posted clips that identified and mocked Federalist Society members without any public sign of action from UCLA.
- UCLA’s policy prohibits conduct that effectively silences a speaker, and commentators are pressing law school leaders to explain any disciplinary steps and apply the rules evenly.