Yale Law School Professor Jed Rubenfeld has been suspended for two years in connection with sexual harassment allegations, according to New York magazine.
Faculty reportedly received notice on Monday that Rubenfeld “will leave his position as a member of the YLS faculty for a two-year period, effective immediately,” and that upon his return the professor would be restricted from teaching “small group or required courses,” as well as social gatherings with students.
Rubenfeld’s suspension reportedly stems from a number of sexual harassment allegations against the professor. Spanning decades, the accusations include “verbal harassment, unwanted touching, and attempted kissing, both in the classroom and at parties at Rubenfeld’s home,” according to New York mag.
“I absolutely, unequivocally, 100 percent deny that I ever sexually harassed anyone, whether verbally or otherwise,” Rubenfeld told the outlet Tuesday. “Yes, I’ve said stupid things that I regret over the course of my 30 years as professor, and no professor who’s taught as long as I have that I know doesn’t have things that they regret that they said.”
Adding that he had previously written about “the unreliability of the campus Title IX procedures,” including a controversial 2014 New York Times op-ed, Rubenfeld claimed he had become “a target of people making false allegations.”
While Rubenfeld told New York‘s Irin Camron that the identities of those allegedly false accusers had not been revealed to him, one accuser said Yale policy demanded she reveal her identity.
“I reported because I was sexually harassed. Now he’s being dishonest about even this aspect of the Title IX process,” the accuser told Camron. “For example, as Yale’s policy requires, I identified myself to him. I had to, and I did so at considerable risk given his influence in the legal community.”
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