A tenured professor and former Federal Trade Commission member recently resigned from George Mason University’s law school, more than a year and a half after a former student accused him of sexual harassment.
The former student, Elyse Dorsey, alleged in a 2021 complaint to the university that Joshua D. Wright solicited a sexual relationship with her in 2010 while he was a professor at the law school and she was his research assistant. Another former Mason law student, Angela Landry, has told The Washington Post a similar account of feeling pressured to have sex with Wright.
Randall’s email circulated on social media and was quoted Monday in a Bloomberg News article about Wright. Neither Randall nor other university officials would elaborate on the law dean’s description of the investigation and its outcome. The university said state law and policy protect the privacy of personnel matters.
“While a student at the law school, there were times I wanted to say no to his sexual advances and requests, but I felt I could not say no without risking retaliatory behavior—like what I am now facing,” Dorsey wrote in the complaint.that Dorsey and Landry — who both graduated from the law school in 2012 — were alleging that Wright abused his power to engage them separately in sexual contact. They alleged that his inappropriate behavior continued after they had entered the legal profession.
He is a prominent conservative voice in the field of antitrust law and in years past has consulted for Google and Amazon. The FTC said it’s aware of the allegations that Wright engaged in inappropriate sexual relationships with subordinates while serving there but had no record of any complaints.
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