Law School Launches Title IX Investigation Into Prominent Professor
As a result of the investigation Ian Samuel will not even be handling final exams for his classes.
Ian Samuel (photo by IU Comm via Twitter)
A Title IX probe has been launched into the behavior of Ian Samuel, a law professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. The details of the allegations against Samuel have not been disclosed publicly at this time.
As reported by Indiana Public Media, as a result of the investigation, Samuel will not even be handling final exams for the classes he is teaching this semester. Those duties will fall to another professor, Charles Geyh, and Dean Austin Parrish. They’ll be both writing and grading Samuel’s exams for this semester. The email explaining what was going on to students in Samuel’s Civ Pro section notes there was a “situation outside of our control that requires us to modify what had been originally planned.”
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Update: The email to students also notes Samuel voluntarily checked himself into a hospital.
A spokesperson for the University, Chuck Carney, confirmed the investigation but could not comment any further:
“As with any ongoing Title IX investigation, we cannot comment on aspects of this personnel matter,” Carney said. “We take these processes very seriously and will determine the facts in the case.”
Samuel made headlines earlier this year for publicly disclosing the mandatory arbitration agreement Biglaw firm Munger Tolles required all employees to sign. After the backlash, the firm reversed their policy, and set off an industry-wide look at how forced arbitration is used at law firms that is still ongoing.
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UPDATE: First Mondays, the popular Supreme Court podcast Samuel co-hosts announced he will be on leave as he tends to this issue:
They further clarified they expect Samuel to be on leave for the duration of the investigation:
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