On Wednesday, the Yale Daily News ran this story recounting a series of allegations against law professor Amy Chua.
https://twitter.com/yaledailynews/status/1379979051478220807
The next day, Chua released an open letter accusing the YDN of bungling the story and the law school administration of improperly leaking confidential files. abovethelaw.com/uploads/2021/0…
This afternoon, one of Chua's accusers released the following statement.
https://twitter.com/LeahLitman/status/1380947251489607680
One thing that leaps out about these accounts is how different all three of them are, including on basic questions of fact.
The Daily News, for instance, did not report the allegation that there was drinking at the "dinner parties" held at Chua's home during the pandemic, as the student alleges today.
The context here is that Chua's husband, law professor Jed Rubenfeld, is currently serving a two-year suspension from teaching as a result of allegations of sexual misconduct involving students.
If it's true that Chua was forbidden by Yale from hosting students at their home as a result of these sexual misconduct allegations, and that they subsequently hosted events there at which students "dr[a]nk heavily," new statements from her defenders are going to age very poorly.
One other thing: Chua doesn't say she didn't violate the 2019 agreement with Yale, only that she doesn't "believe" she did. By her own account, Yale appears to believe otherwise.
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