According to a Wednesday memo from the university, the Stanford Law dean that led a disruptive and vulgar student protest against Judge Kyle Duncan is now on leave. Tirien Steinbach, the school’s dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion, was recorded on video seizing the lectern from Duncan during a Federalist Society event before reading off a prewritten six-minute speech.
“Associate Dean Tirien Steinbach is currently on leave. Generally speaking, the university does not comment publicly on pending personnel matters, and so I will not do so at this time,” dean of Stanford Law Jenny S. Martinez wrote in a 10-page memo. While Martinez did not elaborate on whether Steinbach’s leave was voluntary, she did say that the school would be revising its policies.
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Martinez called the shutdown of Duncan’s speech a “failure to ensure that the university’s disruption policies were followed,” and that it would be the duty of university administrators going forward to “ensure that university rules on disruption of events will be followed.”
Despite calls for the student protesters to be held accountable, Martinez said that the university would not take disciplinary action, explaining that administrators had given “conflicting signals about whether what was happening was acceptable or not.” Instead, Stanford Law students will be required to attend “a mandatory half-day session in [the] spring quarter… on the topic of freedom of speech and the norms of the legal profession.”
“As a law school, it is within our educational mandate to address with students the norms of the legal profession with regard to, for example, offering substantive criticism of legal arguments and positions rather than vulgar personal insults, and the potential consequences for their professional reputations of such speech.”
On March 9, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan was invited to Stanford’s campus for a Federalist Society event. He was expected to speak about his work concerning big tech, gun laws, and the COVID-19 mandates but was interrupted when student protesters stormed the room. Among the protesters’ grievances was that Duncan refused to use the preferred pronouns of a convicted sex offender in 2020.
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Stanford Law students hurled insults at the judge, calling him a “liar” and a “scumbag.” One protester reportedly called for Duncan’s daughter to be raped. Rather than intervene, Steinbach seized the podium and presented her own speech, accusing Duncan of dividing the student body and spreading hate.
VIDEO: a DEI bureaucrat in action
Stanford Law's associate dean for DEI, Tirien Angela Steinbach, is an obvious moron, appointed only because she is a black woman. Here, she starts crying because FedSoc invited a conservative circuit judge.
$100k per year for this "education" pic.twitter.com/jGnuIGgZlg
— Maxwell Meyer (@mualphaxi) March 10, 2023
“Is the juice worth the squeeze?” she remarked.
An investigation by Washington Free Beacon later estimated Steinbach’s salary to be over $200,000, based on internal Stanford University documents. Stanford students and U.S. lawmakers have demanded that Steinbach be removed from her position.
“I recognize that the course I have chosen will not please everyone,” Martinez said in the memo. “[N]ot least of which those who have demanded that I retract my apology to Judge Duncan and those who have demanded that students be immediately expelled. But this is the course I believe best furthers our obligations… training future lawyers and preparing them to participate in a profession that undergirds the very fabric of our democracy and the rule of law.”
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