Harvard University Drops Harvey Weinstein Lawyer As Faculty Dean

Washington: The Harvard University has announced that a law professor who is representing disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein will not continue as faculty dean of an undergraduate house after his term ends on June 30, bowing to months of pressure from students. The professor, Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., and his wife, Stephanie Robinson, who is a lecturer at the law school, have been the faculty deans of Winthrop House, one of Harvard’s residential houses for undergraduate students, since 2009, The New York Times reported. They were the first African-American faculty deans in Harvard’s history.

On Saturday, the dean of Harvard College, Rakesh Khurana, sent an email to students and staff members at Winthrop House, informing them that he would not renew the appointments of Sullivan and Robinson as faculty deans after their terms end on June 30. Khurana said in his email that the decision was taken due to “a number of considerations”. When Sullivan joined Weinstein’s defence team in January, many students expressed dismay, saying that his decision to represent a person accused of abusing women disqualified the professor from serving in a role of support and mentorship to students. Weinstein is scheduled to go to trial in June in Manhattan on rape and related charges. (IANS)

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