Weinstein embodies the highest ideals of the law-that every accused person, no matter how reviled, is entitled to a defense in court. History shows that without such a requirement, state power slides toward tyranny, Harvard’s adults could have said. Rather, he is upholding the principles that all defendants, even guilty ones, have a right to legal representation and that the state may criminally punish someone only after proving his guilt in a rigorously contested adversarial process. Harvard’s administrators could have explained that a lawyer who defends someone accused of a crime doesn’t thereby condone crime. This student agitation could have been an opportunity for a lesson in the values of Western democracy. Sullivan (who is black) had “failed” female African-Americans at Harvard and had compromised his ability to support “survivors. The Association of Black Harvard Women complained that Mr. The record reveals no condemnation from Harvard officials and requests for comment were not returned at press time. Still-unidentified vandals spray-painted #MeToo slogans such as “your silence is violence” on Winthrop House. Harvard’s dean of students and its lead Title IX coordinator attended a student protest outside the main administration building, where the ubiquitous Office for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response doled out hot chocolate. Six Harvard dorms held “listening sessions” attended by emissaries from the university’s Office for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, whose website urged traumatized students to seek mental-health services and other help from Harvard’s massive Title IX bureaucracy. Would Winthrop residents “really want to one day accept Diploma,” the petition asked, from someone who “believes it is okay to defend” Mr. Sullivan doesn’t “value the safety of students,” the petition announced. Sullivan’s choice of client was “deeply trauma-inducing,” and shows that Mr. Sullivan from his position as faculty dean of Winthrop House, one of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate residential houses. A visual and environmental studies major started an online petition to remove Mr. Student backlash was immediate when the New York Post reported in late January that Mr. By taking the complaint seriously, Harvard puts its commitment to identity politics above the core tenets of due process. Weinstein, who is charged with rape in New York, puts them at risk. Harvard has opened an investigation into law professor Ronald Sullivan, who earlier this year joined Harvey Weinstein’s criminal-defense team. A law professor agrees to represent an unpopular client, and undergrads say they’re traumatized.

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