As a constitutional scholar and the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, I strongly defend the right to speak one's mind in public forums. But the rancorous debate over the Israel-Hamas war seems to be blurring some people's sense of which settings are public and which are not.
Until recently, neither my wife-Catherine Fisk, a UC Berkeley law professor-nor I ever imagined a moment when our right to limit a protest at a dinner held at our own home would become the subject of any controversy.
The poster attacks me for no apparent reason other than that I am Jewish. The posters did not specify anything I personally had said or done wrong. The only stated request was that the University of California divest from Israel-a matter for the regents of th
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