Tiger Mom’s husband kept trying to bang his students

[Anonymous]

I'm sure a ton of law professors will be swept up in #metoo over the years. They hold a lot of sway over vulnerable women looking for that critical clerkship/biglaw job. However, those law professors are no longer important after 2L year so no downside to reporting their behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure a ton of law professors will be swept up in #metoo over the years. They hold a lot of sway over vulnerable women looking for that critical clerkship/biglaw job. However, those law professors are no longer important after 2L year so no downside to reporting their behavior.

Except the damage to the student’s reputation ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure a ton of law professors will be swept up in #metoo over the years. They hold a lot of sway over vulnerable women looking for that critical clerkship/biglaw job. However, those law professors are no longer important after 2L year so no downside to reporting their behavior.

No to play devil's advocate but we're taking about mid 20s, smartest young ladies in the world. I understand the power dynamic, but enough of the babe in the woods routine. If any YLS student hooked up with him -- and hooked up is a very broad scope -- for a leg up, it was a calculated move and they knew exactly what they were doing. Young attorney Kamala Harris was just a bit older than the average YLS student and she willingly dated married, obese and 30 years her senior Willie Brown, for which she was awarded a couple of plum low six-figure jobs.

[Anonymous]

New Haven is a small town. Safe bet the height of his alleged creeping lines up with when Tiger Mom was flying around pushing her books and working the speaking and panel circuit? When the cat's away...

[Anonymous]

Nasty. Will the wife kick him to the curb?

[Anonymous]

It looks like he was suspended for two years. Yale declines to comment on whether he is being paid during his suspension.

Why would he not have been fired?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New Haven is a small town. Safe bet the height of his alleged creeping lines up with when Tiger Mom was flying around pushing her books and working the speaking and panel circuit? When the cat's away...

She was on that circuit for a long time-even before the tiger mom book she had World on Fire which had a lot of buzz and she was touring and doing the speaker circuit for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It looks like he was suspended for two years. Yale declines to comment on whether he is being paid during his suspension.

Why would he not have been fired?

My guess is they’re not done investigating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nasty. Will the wife kick him to the curb?

No. She only cares about optics. A broken marriage is a blemish.

...unless he's actually fired. Then yes, she'd probably sack him because he'd be considered washed up. Then she'd capitalize by writing another book on being a divorced Tiger Mom trying to bag another smart/rich/successful second spouse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like he was suspended for two years. Yale declines to comment on whether he is being paid during his suspension.

Why would he not have been fired?

My guess is they’re not done investigating.

Find it hard to believe that anyone who benefitted would ever admit it. This isn't a $2/hour promotion at McDonald's, these are the smartest students in the world with access to some of the most powerful and lucrative jobs in the world.

[Anonymous]

It came up during the Kavanaugh controversy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nasty. Will the wife kick him to the curb?

No. She only cares about optics. A broken marriage is a blemish.

...unless he's actually fired. Then yes, she'd probably sack him because he'd be considered washed up. Then she'd capitalize by writing another book on being a divorced Tiger Mom trying to bag another smart/rich/successful second spouse.

This. If he isn't fired she can pull a Hilary and say it's a vast conspiracy against him or something. If he is fired, she will kick him to curb. She will absolutely find someone else to put up with her. There are plenty of men who just care the woman is thin, has long hair and keeps herself well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure a ton of law professors will be swept up in #metoo over the years. They hold a lot of sway over vulnerable women looking for that critical clerkship/biglaw job. However, those law professors are no longer important after 2L year so no downside to reporting their behavior.

No to play devil's advocate but we're taking about mid 20s, smartest young ladies in the world. I understand the power dynamic, but enough of the babe in the woods routine. If any YLS student hooked up with him -- and hooked up is a very broad scope -- for a leg up, it was a calculated move and they knew exactly what they were doing. Young attorney Kamala Harris was just a bit older than the average YLS student and she willingly dated married, obese and 30 years her senior Willie Brown, for which she was awarded a couple of plum low six-figure jobs.

I was in my mid 20s when I was sexually harassed in a Ph.D program by a professor who was not even tenured. I don't think you understand how terrifying it is to have someone with so much power over you abuse that power. He gave me horrible reviews after my complaint. I was not making the kind of money to be able to hire a good lawyer. I made the choice to file a complaint and leave and accept I would never get my Ph.D. Those who chose to sleep with him got a massive career boost. His wife ended up divorcing him and he made her life a living hell in court and somehow got custody of half the kids. Years and many complaints later the university did not give him tenure and he simply moved onto another University. He is remarried to a wealthy woman and living in a mansion, but estranged from some of his kids.

If I had a dollar for every case I knew where a grad student slept with their mentor and sometimes even married that mentor. Abuse of power is rampant and if you don't give in, in can ruin your career.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe she can get a book deal out of it.

No question.

Tiger divorcee dating.

Totally. She was the one who mentored the Hillbilly Elegy author (I did not like his book).

Interesting, I grew up in a poor community not quite as downtrodden as the Hollow, but went on to an Ivy and thought I would relate more to that book than I did. I suspect her influence maybe part of it.

To me, his memoir reeked of fabricated and exaggerated bull****. Makes sense to learn he was groomed by these shameless creeps who will say or do anything to "get ahead".

+1000

He wasn't even poor in the book -- growing up, his mom made the equivalent of a ~$300k salary in DC in today's dollars (I did the math); she was an addict and her bad choices were more to blame than money or a lack thereof. All those stories could have been fabricated or exaggerated, too. He did milk his experience through solid book sales in the neo-con, Bill Kristol circles and with the NYT crowd, so kudos to him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was at Duke Law when they were both there. She was a big hit among the students.

She was pretty hot when she was young (and still pretty hot for 50+ mom), so wonder if she made similar rounds when she was younger and married to her stodgy but connected DH?