Amy Chua and the latest meltdown at Yale Law.

This latest uproar at Yale is absurd on its face. Did Chua host two students or three? Did they drink a glass of wine or not? Does a cheese plate count as a meal? But the reason it has become such a thing on campus is all about the context: Yale has removed Chua and Rubenfeld from teaching mandatory courses, then permitted it, then removed them again, all with zero transparency. Even before the 2018 investigation, Rubenfeld had lost permission to teach a small group for one year, following previous accusations of harassment. After the school concluded its 2020 investigation into Rubenfeld s misbehavior, it only told members of the faculty, not students, that Rubenfeld would be suspended from teaching all of his classes for two years. After this two-year suspension, Rubenfeld will be allowed to teach at Yale Law again, although he will still be barred from teaching small groups or any other required classes. In other words, whatever Yale did find, it was sufficiently alarming that the school determined Rubenfeld could no longer be trusted to teach a required class, even post-suspension, but also that after some interregnum, he could still teach some students, so long as they chose to take his classes. If this dance actually achieves anything at all, it is to create a rotation that assures that every few years, a fresh crop of first-year law students will have to navigate relationships with these same two professors who could make or break their legal careers, without any sense of the potential dramas and risks that come with that.

via slate.com

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