Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports

Mr. Lazarus is a 1967 graduate of Yale Law School and a distinguished lawyer who served as associate director of President Jimmy Carter s White House Domestic Policy Staff, and since then with private and public-interest law firms in Washington, D.C.  He kindly gave permission to share with readers his penetrating analysis of Yale’s mishandling of the “Trap House Affair” and how to now make things right:  Download 11.9.2021 memo on the Trap House Affair.  Do read the whole memo, but here is an excerpt to give the flavor:

What now is most baffling is the YLS administration s defiant, defensive crouch response to the widening public criticism batting away the smoking-gun-studded factual record, as partial facts in a charged media environment, and attempting to deflect criticism by announcing an assessment by Deputy Dean Ian Ayres, to help us move forward.   Refusing to address publicly available facts, and trivializing, as media hype, outrage from a Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post columnist, a Post Deputy Editorial Page Editor, and distinguished academics will not stem this tide. Nor will Dean Gerken s passing the buck to a subordinate.  

via leiterlawschool.typepad.com

On Trap-house-gate.