Edley Will Not Leave in Protest

Some reports and rumors concerning my likely leave of absence to work in the Clinton Administration have suggested that I may not return to Harvard as some form of protest concerning diversity on the Law School faculty. This is false.

If I do not return it will be for a complex set of personal and professional reasons, only one of which relates to my various disappointments with life on this faculty. I have been dissatisfied with appointments patterns here since I came as a students in 1973, but my inclination has always been to stay in a battle and fight, rather than avoid the war by changing my citizenship. Flight from strife is a luxury to which only those who are older, with more battle scars, are entitled. Professor Christopher Edley, Jr.