Right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. You know, ever since human beings started congregating in institutions of what we would call a higher learning, colleges, universities, conservatives and traditionalists have been freaked out but just were dangerous ideas were being shared their. I mean, really the whole dangerous ideas coming out of universities is literally as old as universities themselves. It has been a core reactionary concern for millennia. Just like everything else, this old thing is new again. This brings us to the most recent republican freakout in florida, which as you may have heard as a governor there, ron desantis calling the creepy Thought Police to campus. He just signed a bill that would require public universities and colleges to survey students, faculty, and staff about the beliefs and few points to support intellectual diversity. Not only that, he is gone on to suggest that budget cuts could take place if schools are found to be, quote, indoctrin
A colleague for and faculty of law d a junior fellow its a great plsure to have you here. [applause] the book is available for purchase at the bookstore pen with thing going in random house books as well and then we would entertain questions here and then to ask a question of the panel on the righthand side and then with law degrees from oxfordnd ran the first per gone corporation the pathologica pursuit and power in 2004 and in 20 languages also made into a movie at the time which one the best for documentary at the sundance festival. So with the sql with this new book with the book he wrote in 1987 and social law and with the tremendous around as the subject. Another book im quite keen on with the business targeting children in 2012 and then we will be joined the race of the millennials and a new generation to the future with the young people here and the junior fellow also at toronto faculty of law and Research Associate collaborating center for governance accountability and transpa
White collar crime. Check out website to learn more to work forward a moe just, equitable and Inclusive Society for all. I want to thank everyone who has worked hard to put together this incredible event for you, including our wonderful speaker, dean julia and a terrific book store partner, Marketing Team and all of you for your support. I also want to let you know that todays program will be reaired on cspan booktv following this event. At the opened todays program please stay tuned for Upcoming Events and information pow you can obtainer own company of professor taubs book. We hope you el ask lots of questions today and well take those at the very end of the program. To do so simply speaker enter your questions in he q a box. Ill tune things over now. Thank you to the center for social justice, for organizing and hosting this event and for inviting me to speak briefly as ash yell, im the dean of the University School of law and im delighted to welcome everyone to tonights event. Thou
Welcome, everyone. Thank you so much for being here today and joining us for this important event celebrating professor jennifers new book how dirty money the shocking injustice and unseen cost of whitecollar crime. I am the director of the center for social justice at western new England University school of law which works to advance justice through research, education, advocacy and public engagement. Please check out our website if you would like to learn more about our social justice initiatives and the ways we are strengthening collaborative efforts between the school of law and the region, the work towards a more just, equitable and Inclusive Society for all. I want to thank everyone who has worked hard to put together this incredible event for you including our wonderful speakers, louise and random house, wneu Marketing Team and all of you for your support. I also want to let you know that todays program will be aired on cspan booktv following this event. At the end of todays pr
Bader ginsburg who died friday night. She died on the eve of the jewish new year, the first jewish woman on the Supreme Court and a very interesting thing about individuals who die right before the new year. They say they suggest very righteous people die at the very end of the year because they were needed until the very end. Under jewish tradition those who die on the new year holiday, a title given to the righteous and saintly. Certainly Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg was entitled to this honor, being righteous and saintly. At her confirmation hearing she talked about her immigrant experience was her father was a jewish immigrant, her mother was a secondgeneration american, she talked about American Values and then she said what has happened over me could only happen in america and then she spent her entire career protecting those values that make america a great nation it is in the reason people come here in order to reach their full potential. It guided her well in her public service