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“My honest reaction is just completely gobsmacked, but in the best way,” she said. “I’m very proud today of our college and our college’s administration for finally choosing to do the right thing.” - Danu Mudannayake, a junior who took a leading role in organizing the protests.

If your law students believe certain individuals shouldn't have the right to be represented, to the extent of going a lawyer who chooses to represent them you should question your content & your validity as a law school.

This would be like a group of doctors protesting the practice of the one doctor who chooses to accept the bad cases they refuse to take. The recognition & affirmation of the right to counsel & every other right is important for the individual/minority vs the majority.

These "good intention bleeding hearts" who harassed their school into this decision would not hesitate to codify into law what they just did if given the opportunity. They are fascists. The school should be ashamed for indulging their silliness.

Not law students, I agree. It still doesn't explain protests over a lawyer's decision to represent an accused individual. The only people who think his ability is impacted are those upset with his decision to represent HW. A decision which clearly played a role in his removal.

It disrupts his ability to be a house dean. It's not a teaching position, it's a position as an advisor and confidant to students.

students are really so simple that they can’t understand that an attorney like Sullivan can represent a client professionally w/o endorsing their behavior? I’ve known attorneys representing defendants in the most heinous cases and they are the best confidants and advisors I know

This is absurd and disgraceful. This distinguished man will no longer be a dean at Harvard because he dared be part of the legal defense of an unpopular criminal defendant. Madness.

that’s an even dumber reason. a whole lot of words without any specific allegation of wrongdoing. just emptyspeak

...except it's literally full of examples of him intimidating subordinates into submission??

but it’s not. at all. it’s a whole bunch of innuendo and insinuation and not a single concrete allegation of wrongdoing.

We must be reading different articles.

Also I hope you're aware that he's still going to be a law professor?? Like, this is only removing him from the undergraduate position?

yes I’m aware. it’s a bunch of people, several anonymously, saying what they “think” the motivations behind hiring and firing decisions were. nothing definitive.

That’s dumb and, more importantly, dangerous. I abhor Weinstein, but he should have an attorney, and that attorney shouldn’t be punished for doing his job. These are the standards of democracy.

I agree, legal representation does not equal support of the defendant. The students chased away a good learning opportunity.

Maybe these kids should spend a day with a Public Defender. Good job Harvard

Maybe a huge number of these “kids” were victims of sexual predators. Maybe they finally got the opportunity to exercise their rights to voice their opinions.

That is ridiculous. You have no evidence to support that claim. These students shouldn’t be in law school if they don’t understand the right to legal representation.

Exactly. This is the next Generation of lawyers. They could be defending you or me. Frankly, I'm terrified.

“Faculty dean” seems to be a position akin to paid ‘live-in house adult’, sort of like a head RA. It’s a side gig, and one that only makes sense if the students like and trust the person who’s filling the role. Maybe they just don’t.

Being a lawyer has absolutely nothing to do with who you “like,” its about using your analytical skills to build a case. Regardless of his position, he worked hard for it and got dismissed thanks to some bratty kids.