Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Jed Rubenfeld under investigation at Yale

Millionaires Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld
You're probably going to want to read about Yale law professor Jed Rubenfeld, a Brett Kavanaugh enthusiast and husband of abusive "tiger mother" Amy Chua. Rubenfeld is under investigation for sexually harassing students:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/jed-rubenfeld-amy-chua-yale-law-school.html

This came up in the press in reports that Chua had been sending law students to act as clerks for Kavanaugh and told the female law students to dress and act like models. That's how Kavanaugh likes 'em.

From the article:
Linda was left with two terrible options: She could protect her clerkship prospects by subjecting herself to more unwelcome flirtation, or she could ask Yale to investigate Rubenfeld. The potential drawbacks to reporting seemed to greatly outweigh the upsides. This was several years before #MeToo, and the prevailing wisdom at the time was that women should just lean in and push through when things got weird. Linda questioned whether reporting her professor would make any difference at all.

So, she decided not to give the Title IX coordinator Rubenfeld’s name. Instead, she thought about how she would interact with him once she was back on campus. That fall, she devoted a good chunk of mental energy to protecting herself and her recommendation, keeping her distance from Rubenfeld while going out of her way not to offend him. By the end of the first semester of her second year, she’d gotten her clerkship—with Rubenfeld’s endorsement.

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