Article from Reason by Robby Soave.
Harvard University’s administration has unilaterally surrendered to a mob of student-activists demanding the termination of law professor Ronald Sullivan as faculty dean of Winthrop House, an undergraduate residence, over his “trauma-inducing” decision to join Harvey Weinstein’s legal defense team.
“I am writing to let you know that Ronald Sullivan and Stephanie Robinson will not be continuing as your Faculty Deans when their term ends on June 30, 2019,” Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana wrote in an email to Winthrop House students on Saturday.
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Sullivan, who remains a Harvard law professor, is a man with quite a resume: He advised Sen. Barack Obama on criminal justice issues in 2008, represented the family of Michael Brown in their suit against the city of Ferguson, Missouri, and is responsible for the release of more than 6,000 wrongfully incarcerated people. His clients have included accused murderers and terrorists, consistent with the liberal principle that everyone accused of a crime deserves expert legal representation.
But in the wake of Sullivan’s decision to serve as legal counsel for Weinstein, Harvard student-activists have embraced a different view. Danu Mudannayake, one the students leading the campaign to remove Sullivan, described the professor’s representation of Weinstein as “not only upsetting, but deeply trauma-inducing” and evidence that he “does not value the safety of students he lives within Winthrop House.” According to Mudannayake and her fellow radicals, Sullivan has made Harvard an unsafe and hostile educational environment.
Read the entire article at Reason.
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Well, that is a switch. A morally correct Collare that is one for the record books.
who are these really idiotic triggered morons/ who would even think they had a say in a law professors life.?
Best retaliation for Ms Mud’s foolish, unwarranted and unfair activism would be to keep a vigil on her submissions of her feeble resume to gain employment…should she ever attempt to stoop that low.
In American jurisprudence, we have a long history of a fair judicial system, where the accused is afforded the presumption of innocence and legal representation. Harvard, once a prestigious university and law school, now represents “guilty until proven innocent” and no one should ever represent an accused party, regardless of whether they are innocent or guilty – which is for a jury to decide!
Harvard is HIGHLY OVERRATED! They are living off their prior reputation, as they head to the bottom of the cesspool!
this is the path which progressivism affords society: a slippery slope littered with ruined careers, lubricated by the tears and angst of snowflakes, soon enough inescapable from the waiting maw of totalitarianism
Obviously harvard law students, and administration for that matter, don’t grasp the concept that the accussed have a right to legal counsel and that is the job of a defense attorney. Methinks Harvard no longer deservs it’s place as a premier school.
Note to all progressives: If your side wins, some day they will come for you to.
Harvard was established as a Christian school … once they ditched that bit of history they started turning out snowflakes.
A correction That is a switch a morally correct University that is one for the books.
It seems that a law degree from Harvard shouldn’t be worth the expense of a toilet paper roll. Is there anyone left at Harvard who understands how American justice system functions. The demotions make Harvard a fair object of ridicule.
Anybody…no matter how heinous the allegations…..deserves their day in court with representation. I’d like to see these snowflakes reaction if it became politically incorrect to defend them of their accusations and they would be left without representations ! All too often these school administrators give into the slightest of pressure. If I am on the faculty seeing this I would just quit. Especially if you are successful and have cases going on why put up with this crap !