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BRAVO, Race to the Bottom Blog!

By Nancy Rapoport

The Race to the Bottom (http://www.theracetothebottom.org/home/covering-churchill-v-university-of-colorado.html) is going to cover the trial of Ward Churchill, the CU Professor who made critical comments about the US in connection with 9/11.

Here's the info, straight from my colleagues at Race to the Bottom:

Students from the Race to the Bottom and the Student Employment Law Association at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and faculty from the College of Law and the Daniels College of Business, will be providing daily coverage of the suit brought by Ward Churchill, a former tenured faculty member in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, against the University of Colorado. The trial begins on March 9 in the Denver District Court.

Churchill came to the public forefront when reports surfaced about an essay he wrote that contained critical comments about the US concerning the 9/11 attacks on the trade towers in NY (the comments are posted on Wikipedia).

Churchill was ultimately dismissed from the University of Colorado. He has brought suit alleging essentially that he was dismissed for exercising his first amendment rights because of the criticisms in the 9/11 essay. The University of Colorado, on the other hand, is asserting that Churchill was dismissed because his conduct fell "below minimum standards of professional integrity."

Students and faculty will attend every session of the trial. They will post after each session, assessing the progress of the trial. In addition, others will be asked to participate and write occasional commentary.

The trial is not a corporate governance matter so the posts will not appear on the main page of The Race to the Bottom. Instead, there is a special link to Churchill v. University of Colorado accessible from the main page of The Race to the Bottom.

Primary materials, including the complaint and the answer, are posted on the DU Corporate Governance web site.

Should be VERY interesting!

Full post as published by Nancy Rapoport's Blogspot on March 06, 2009 (boomark / email).