The UC Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky says that a protest staged at his home during a law student dinner was not within the bounds of First Amendment protection. “No one has the right to come into my house, or yours, and disrupt a dinner,” said Chemerinsky. The Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine mounted the protest. (ABA Journal, April 11, 2024, by Debra Cassens Weiss)
In his commentary on the incident, Josh Blackman in Reason, Aprll 10, 2024, included a statement from Chemerinksy that his home was not a free speech forum, but the anti-Semitic posters on campus showing Chemerinsky holding up bloody dinner utensils constituted protected speech.