Penn Law students want to oust a professor known for racist comments

Penn Law barred Wax from teaching her mandatory first-year class shortly thereafter but didn't take further action against the tenured professor, which disappointed and frustrated many students.Current and former Penn Law students said her behavior behind closed doors was just as bad, if not worse. But on Election Day in November 2016, Wax led a civil-procedure class for first-year law students and refused to record it, which left students who had missed the class to vote unaware that it wouldn't be recorded, a former Penn Law student told Insider."She gloated about people who were out of luck because they were out voting," the former Penn Law student said. (It's 95% there)," she told the publication in 2019.Wax has sparked student outrage in the past and has been the target of several student campaigns looking to have her removed from the law school.In light of her recent racist comments about Asian immigrants, Penn Law students said they were hoping the University of Pennsylvania's faculty senate would finally revoke her tenure."We're trying this time to go directly to the university rather than just the law school," Apratim Vidyarthi, a third-year law student who helped organize a petition urging the university to take action, said. "Taking her public behavior, prior complaints, and more recent complaints together, I have decided it is my responsibility as Dean to initiate the University procedure governing sanctions taken against a faculty member," he wrote in the email.A representative for the law school declined to comment.The law school has taken some measures against Wax over the years, including taking her off the mandatory civil-procedure course taught to first-year law students.