REUTERS —  When Georgetown University Law Center placed new faculty member Ilya Shapiro on leave Monday over his comments regarding the race of President Biden’s future Supreme Court nominee, it joined a growing list of law schools embroiled lately in free speech disputes. The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Yale Law School and Stanford Law School have each faced free speech controversies over the past year, highlighting tensions between race, inclusivity and open discourse. “I think it’s a reflection of the time we live in—a time in which we are very politically polarized, and social media and the Internet make it so easy for these things to get national attention,” said free speech expert Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Just two weeks ago, UPenn’s law dean said he was seeking sanctions against longtime professor Amy Wax, whose comments about race and immigration have spurred periodic campus outrage since at least 2017. Wax recently wrote that as long as Asians support Democratic politicians, the country would be “better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration.”