Dean Runs Amok - Faculty Speak

Ave Maria School of Law Professors Myers, Murphy, and Falvey have released a statement on the popular legal website "Mirror of Justice" concerning the administration's treatment of co-founder and tenured professor Stephen Safranek.

Excerpt: "Although the suspension [of Safranek] appears unjust in itself, the Dean's chosen procedures are absolutely lacking in even the veneer of fundamental fairness or due process norms. Indeed, the suspension occurred without deliberation by the full Board of Governors, without faculty consultation, without due process, and without any meaningful explanation as to why the circumstances satisfy the relevant standard of an "extraordinary" case. This abuse of this procedure has effectively stripped Professor Safranek, a husband and father of seven children, of the very security that tenure is supposed to afford faculty members at law schools appproved by the American Bar Association. In our view, these actions (and many others) reveal the extent to which this adminsitration has betrayed the Law School's Mission."


Mirror of Justice full text

UPDATE: Fumare has a helpful graphic to keep track of the incredible shrinking Law School Board of Governors