People Versus Harvard Law

In 2002, Kiwi Camara, joined his classmates in posting his class outlines for the previous year on the Harvard Law School website. But in his notes, Camara used shorthand terms that some regarded as racial slurs. In the furor that followed, a speech code to prohibit members of the law school community from voicing racially insensitive remarks was proposed. This decision triggered a chain of events, convulsing the nation’s most prestigious school of law. In this brilliant portrait of an American institution in crisis, Andrew Peyton Thomas explains how what happens at Harvard Law affects the nation.