Law School Dean Survives Two-Year Search, Falls To One-Week Culture War - Above the Law

"Emily Suski, a professor and associate dean at the University of South Carolina's law school, was announced as the new dean of the law school on January 9. By January 14, the university had "decided to go a different direction in filling the vacancy" based on "feedback from key external stakeholders about the fit between Professor Suski and the university's vacancy."By "key external stakeholders," the school means conservative politicians seeking cheap headlines. Because the professor signed onto an amici brief"

"The brief in question, prepared by Keker, Van Nest & Peters and Suzanne B. Goldberg, the director of Columbia Law's Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic, isn't particularly controversial. It doesn't even wade into the Equal Protection issues in these cases, limiting its inquiry to the West Virginia half of the case, noting that Title IX - by its text and existing caselaw - should protect the student involved because the record is undisputed that they"

"This involved too much reading for the professional grievance industry. Senate President Pro Tempore Bart Hester, a Republican, explained his objection to the Arkansas Advocate: There's no way the people of Arkansas want somebody running and educating our next generation of lawyers and judges [to be] someone that doesn't understand the difference between a man and a woman. This was, of course, not the argument in"

The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville appointed Emily Suski as law school dean on January 9 and withdrew the appointment on January 14. The university cited "feedback from key external stakeholders" about fit for the vacancy. Conservative politicians objected after Suski signed an amici brief in Supreme Court cases about Idaho and West Virginia transgender student sports bans. The brief argued, confined to West Virginia, that Title IX and caselaw protect a prepubescent student undergoing female hormone treatment from being forced to compete in male sports. State Republican leaders used the brief to challenge Suski's suitability.

Read at Above the Law