Like so many other schools, its leaders apparently refuse to hire anyone who isn’t a dedicated leftist.
The University of Virginia is supposed to have ended its discriminatory hiring practices, but like so many other schools, its leaders apparently refuse to hire anyone who isn’t a dedicated leftist. So argues one of its alums, Professor Scott Douglas Gerber, in this op-ed piece.
He writes:
In an Aug. 15, 2025, Open Letter to UVa’s interim president, I noted that UVa Law appears to be violating anti-discrimination law in its hiring practices. For that, I was sharply criticized — my concerns were dismissed as unsupported, and my motives questioned. UVa’s report now raises serious questions about the practices I flagged.
The problem Gerber sees is the law school’s continuing animosity to conservative or libertarian thinkers:
Hostility toward ideological diversity is not hypothetical. Consider a UVa Law clinic professor who argued — and won — Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services in the U.S. Supreme Court last year, striking down heightened legal burdens for majority-group discrimination victims. According to his account, colleagues berated, ostracized and attempted to undermine him simply for representing a client whose views they disdained. That is not the culture of a welcoming law school; it is the culture of a radical political activist organization.
Just so — that is the way many law schools operate today. They want to produce social justice warriors.