American lawyer and novelist

Jed L Rubenfeld (born February 15, 1959) is an American lawyer and novelist. He is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He was suspended from his post for two years until 2022 for alleged sexual har*ment which har*ment he denied. He is an expert on cons*utional law, privacy, and the First Amendment. He joined the Yale faculty in 1990 and was appointed to a full professorship in 1994. Rubenfeld has also taught as a visiting professor at both the Stanford Law School and the Duke University School of Law. Married to Amy Chua with two daughters, he is also the author of two novels.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Books
• 3 Suspension in wake of sexual har*ment investigation
• 4 Personal life
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Early life

Rubenfeld was born and raised in Washington D.C. in a Jewish family. His father was a psychotherapist and his mother was an art critic. He graduated summa * laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in philosophy in 1980 and magna * laude from Harvard Law School with a J.D. in 1986.

He also studied theater in the Drama Division of the Juilliard School between 1980 and 1982. Rubenfeld clerked for Judge Joseph T. Sneed on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1986–1987. After his clerkship, he worked as an *ociate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and as an *istant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York.

Books

• Freedom and Time: A Theory of Cons*utional Self-Government (2001)
• Against Lemuel (2003)
• Revolution by Judiciary: The Structure of American Cons*utional Law (2005)
• The Interpretation of Murder (2006), his first novel, was a number one bestseller in the United Kingdom, and sold over a million copies worldwide.
• The Death Instinct (2010), his second novel, a mystery-thriller, uses the 1920 Wall Street bombing as a key plot element.
• The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America (2014) with Amy Chua

Suspension in wake of sexual har*ment investigation

Beginning in the summer of 2018, Rubenfeld was investigated by Yale Law School for allegations of sexual har*ment and inappropriate conduct, particularly towards female students, with the investigation being conducted by *le IX investigator Jenn Davis. The school promised a thorough investigation of any potential faculty misconduct, also looking into reported misconduct by Amy Chua. Rubenfeld and Chua denied all allegations. Rubenfeld has been on leave since the spring of 2018. He was suspended from teaching in August 2020 for two years and, upon returning, will be barred from teaching small groups of students or required courses. Rubenfeld declined to answer whether he was being paid by Yale during suspension.

In response of the suspension, the Yale Daily News quoted a former student saying "It was not a surprise to basically any woman in my cl* that this investigation is going on," that some students were afraid to speak out against Rubenfeld and his wife because of their reputation for securing prestigious clerkships for law students, and that "the idea of retaliation" when it came to getting prestigious clerkships was "very real." In October 2020, Yale Law students demanded that Rubenfeld be permanently removed from campus.

During his suspension from Yale Law, Rubenfeld has represented Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine non-profit that publishes information about supposed harms *ociated with vaccines and 5G wireless networks, in its lawsuit against Facebook.

Personal life

Rubenfeld is Jewish. He resides in New Haven, Connecticut, and is married to Yale Law School professor Amy Chua, author of the books World on Fire and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. The couple co-wrote The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America.

Rubenfeld and Chua have two daughters, the older of whom told the New Yorker in 2014, "my dad totally thrives on confrontation".

References

External links

• Yale Law School faculty page
• Bookreporter.com interview
• Appearances on C-SPAN