Over the weekend, while fathers were finding last minute Mother's Day gifts, Harvard announced that one of their most celebrated criminal law scholars, Ronald Sullivan, and his wife Stephanie Robinson, who also teaches in the Law School, would not be renewed as faculty deans of Winthrop House, one of Harvard’s 12 residential houses on campus.
The decision comes immediately on the heels of a vigorous student-led campaign, protesting Sullivan’s decision to join the legal defense team for Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who faces hundreds of allegations of sexual harassment, assault and rape. As the New York Times reported, the University was “bowing to months of student pressure.” But were they?
