DAVID BERNSTEIN: Why I don’t donate to my alma mater, Yale Law School.

I graduated from Yale Law School in 1991, and the 25th reunion was held recently. As you might expect, I was solicited to contribute to the law school.

I was ready to give at least a modest gift, but then I started thinking about how unlike literally every other “elite” law school, Yale Law School has never in my lifetime hired a conservative public law (constitutional law, administrative law and so forth) scholar. (Robert Bork was hired as an antitrust scholar, and only wrote about constitutional law later.) This was true even during the Dean Guido Calabresi era, when the law school hired several free-market-oriented law and economics private law scholars.

I then recalled relatively recent conversations I had with two current or recent members of the Yale Law School faculty, who told me that there are members of that faculty who make it their business to block any non-“progressive” appointments in constitutional law and related fields.

I don’t donate either, for similar reasons.