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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This happened several times when I was in law school.  Not Yale, but another Ivy League school.  I would not look up this as socializing with our professors and I don't think any of the other law students did.  When I was a 1L, one professor opened his house during the first week of school for everyone in our section for a reception.  We politely chatted with him and with each other and spouses.  Not everyone came.  Later, as 2Ls and 3Ls, profs would sometimes invite a seminar class over to his/her house, either for a discussion or for a potluck dinner.   Again, this isn't really socializing.

I also attended a law professor's bris for his child when I worked closely with that professor.  No, the professor did not invite every student on campus to the bris, nor would he have to.  Rules of academic decorum are based on common sense, not on Title VII.

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But how is this fair?  Can a professor really be expected to be subjective with a student that he is personally friends with?  I'm literally shocked that this sort of thing is allowed. 
Your first example of a professor having a reception at him home where all of the students are invited is fine, but the second example seems very inappropriate, and unfair to the other students. [/quote]

For undergraduates, I would only invite students as a group (a class, all students from an extracurricular group, etc), but for graduate students it is different. A prof who is advising a Ph.D. student isn't just overseeing academic work, they are also mentoring to produce a colleague. It can get messy, but the reality of academia is that success is based as much on your network as the quality of your research, which is like many other fields.[/quote]

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