Boalt Update
On Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a horrendous essay by Prof. Linda Hamilton Krieger, one of the professors at Boalt Hall School of Law who met with Jennifer Reisch, the formerly anonymous accuser of Dean Dwyer following the notorious 2000 incident that ultimately ended Dwyer’s career. Professor Krieger’s piece is so unapologetically slanted that it practically screams out for a fisking. Allow me.
Soon, the law school community will scatter, reconnecting with families and friends before starting over again in January. We leave deeply comforted by Berring’s selection, but we leave also with many questions, most of which will probably never be answered to our collective satisfaction.
We know that a sexual encounter between our former dean, John Dwyer, and a second-year law student occurred after a school-related event in December 2000, that Dwyer and the student disagree as to whether the encounter was consensual and that all agree that it represented an error in judgment on Dwyer’s part and was, in his words, “inappropriate.”
Thanks to bloggers Erin O’Connor and Stefan Sharkansky
