Michael W. McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, during the 2009 Federalist Society Annual Lawyers Convention. Nov. 13, 2009.
For the second time this academic year, black students at Stanford Law School are condemning the use of a racial slur by faculty in the classroom.
Last week, professor Michael McConnell—a former federal appellate judge and co-chair of Facebook’s new content moderation oversight board—read a quote attributed to Patrick Henry that contained the “N-word” in his class on the creation of the Constitution. That incident comes just seven months after a Stanford history professor was criticized by students for using the same epithet during a guest lecture in a torts class at the law school.
