Allegations against Jeb Rubenfeld, law professor and husband of Tiger Mom author Amy Chua, depict Yale power couple’s abuse of power in a university structured to give them far too much in the first place
on a two-year suspension from teaching after the school found that he had sexually harassed three students. But the specifics of the allegations against Rubenfeld, which included verbal harassment and attempted kissing, have been largely confidential.
It’s why a student in Rubenfeld’s 2014 “small group,” groups of 16 to 18 students led by one member of the law school faculty, felt like she had to sit through a conversation with the professor in which he asked students questions like, “the statistic that one in five women had been raped — was that true in their experience?” or “What would they do if their partner wanted them to do something they weren’t comfortable with during a sexual encounter?” Rubenfeld also fancied himself a provocateur,...
One night Rubenfeld, after ordering himself and the 2014 student a round of drinks specifically after seeing her order Scotch,would start leaning toward her, touching her arm or the small of her back as he joined a conversation, or staring into her eyes,And on another night, at a small group party at Rubenfeld’s home, the same student said she
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