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NYU Cancels My Oct. 7 Event Over "Security Concerns," Then Caves in Face of Backlash

I was going to talk about my book Lawless but administrators feared protestors. The Federalist Society set an offsite event with federal judges joining me, so NYU magically found a way to host.

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Ilya Shapiro
Oct 04, 2025
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Higher-education grandees just haven’t learned yet. Through some combination of malice and incompetence—and structural ideological bias—NYU Law told the school’s Federalist Society chapter that it couldn’t host me on October 7 because of “security concerns.” Then the story changed in several disingenuous manners, such that they host me, just not that (n…

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