Ronald S. Sullivan, the director of Harvard’s criminal-law clinic and the first African-American to be appointed a faculty dean at Harvard, has joined a team of lawyers representing Harvey Weinstein, the guy whose sexual misconduct was the impetus for the whole “MeToo” movement.
Now a group of students is calling for Sullivan’s resignation as dean. They say that Mr. Sullivan is not fit to be dean if he represents Mr. Weinstein. Over 200 people have signed a petition calling for him to resign his faculty dean position.
One Harvard student said, “Do you really want to one day accept your diploma from someone who for whatever reason, professional or personal, believes it is O.K. to defend such a prominent figure at the center of the #MeToo movement?”
Perhaps the better question is, “How did a student who has so little understanding of the American legal system and the right of every accused person to mount a defense ever get admitted into Harvard?
Info for this post is from Jan Ransom and Michael Gold, “Harvard Dean Is Criticized for Defending Weinstein,” New York Times, (Mar. 6, 2019), A21.
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