Tenured Law professor Amy Wax at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, one of the country’s top law schools, filed a grievance against her Dean Theodore Ruger on Jan. 16, 2023, asking the university to end Ruger’s charges and proposed sanctions to revoke Wax’s tenure with the university.
June 23, 2022, Ruger wrote to Vivian Gadsden, chair of the Faculty Senate, to convene a hearing board to review “Wax’s conduct, and the severe harms she has caused to our community, and to ultimately impose a major sanction against her.”
The charges against Wax started in March 2018. She was relieved of some teaching duties after she voiced a politically incorrect observation during an interview with a professor from Brown University. After Wax said she has never seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, Ruger then barred her from teaching mandatory first-year civil procedure law class, and she is not allowed to serve on any committees. She was labeled as a “racist, xenophobe, white supremacist.”…
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