by Prof. Dara E. Purvis (Penn State Law)
A few months after I graduated from Yale Law School in 2008, I started a clerkship for a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, Calif. Almost immediately, I heard rumors that Alex Kozinski, another judge whose chambers were in the same building, often made inappropriate sexual remarks to female clerks.
Those rumors were finally voiced publicly last week when several of Judge Kozinski’s former clerks and staff members told The Washington Post and other sources that he had shown them pornography, discussed a “knock chart” that listed women he’d had sex with in college and publicly suggested that a clerk in another chambers should exercise naked when she had the gym to herself.
The novelist Heidi Bond claims that the day she started her clerkship, he grabbed her arm and said with a smile: “It’s too late now. She can’t escape any longer. She’s my slave.”
Ms. Bond tried to play it off as a joke. “I think you mean indentured servant.”
“No, I meant slave,” he said, grinning.
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