AMY WAX FILES BACK

Tenured Penn Carey Law School professor Amy Wax filed a grievance against Dean Theodore Ruger, initiating a faculty procedure that serves as a countercomplaint to the University’s ongoing disciplinary proceedings against her.

Accusing Ruger of exploiting University procedures and his power as dean to punish her, Wax requested that her case be evaluated by the Faculty Grievance Commission and the Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility, according to documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Pennsylvanian. In the 43-page grievance filing dated Jan. 16, Wax’s lawyer, David Shapiro, wrote that the grievance was intended to stop Ruger and the University from using the formal sanctions process to “crush” her academic freedom.

“Dean Ruger’s charges are an attack on Prof. Wax’s academic freedoms and freedom of expression,” the grievance filing read. “And, as the University policies make clear, only the Faculty Grievance Commission (the 'Commission') and the Senate Faculty Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility ('SCAFR') have jurisdiction over claims related to academic freedom.”

In the documents, Wax's lawyer also alleged that Ruger is personally biased against Wax because of his