Elizabeth Bartholet Professor of Law. He is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law and focuses his research on the intersection of racial conflict and legal institutions in American life. Although Dean Khurana declared that his decision was “informed by a number of considerations,” he said nothing in his announcement about the issue that lay at the heart of the controversy: the claim that Mr. Sullivan’s representation of Mr. Weinstein was in and of itself inconsistent with his role as a faculty dean. Winthrop House is meant to be a home away from home; faculty deans are in loco parentis. My favourite saying from Randall when asked about passing a student who actually obtained a failing grade: "Well, he's not going to slip into Harvard."
No wonder the students who campaigned for his dismissal on that basis celebrated the administration’s action.They were right. Randall C Kennedy, age 71. Sending our love to the family. Lucian A. Bebchuk Professor of Law. Others have simply been willing to be mau-maued.A few weeks later, after protests that included vandalism (spray-painted graffiti on university buildings included the slogans “Our rage is self-defense” and “Whose side are you on?”), Dean Khurana initiated a review of “the climate” at Winthrop House, including asking students in a questionnaire whether they found the dormitory “sexist” or “non-sexist.” Some onlookers saw the move as a predetermined predicate for wrangling Mr. Sullivan’s resignation or dismissal.As a faculty dean, Mr. Sullivan is responsible for creating a safe, fun, supportive environment in which students can pursue their collegiate ambitions. In 1986, Kennedy married Yvedt Matory, a cancer surgeon. A new book looks at the figure of the American cowboy through the outlaw lens of Mr. The central force animating the drama has been student anger at anyone daring to breach the wall of ostracism surrounding Mr. Weinstein, even for the limited purpose of extending him legal representation. We had the good fortune of spending a few days with him and Buffy. He is also a sought-after lawyer who has represented plaintiffs (including the family of Michael Brown, whose death at the hands of a police officer fueled the Black Lives Matter movement) as well as defendants (including Rose McGowan, the actress who faced drug charges and is, ironically, one of Mr. Weinstein’s accusers).But these dissatisfactions, if relevant at all, were not what provoked the student protests that led to Mr. Sullivan’s ouster. This may reflect his legal training, with its emphasis on precedents and evidence. (As for tennis, Kennedy didn’t play at Princeton—“I was a total nerd,” he says—but he now competes in open tournaments in his age group. “I’ve lived a very charmed life,” he says. There was only one rule: you had to find something about which you were going to be passionate.”The Undergraduate faces up to a postgraduate life without handrails.After earning his bachelor’s in 1977, Kennedy left for Balliol College, Oxford, on a Rhodes scholarship, then earned a law degree at Yale in 1982.