Ken Randall, dean of the Scalia Law School at George Mason University, has tendered his resignation effective the end of the academic year, according to Virginia Business magazine, citing remarks by GMU Provost James Antony to GMU’s academic affairs committee.

A university spokesman denied that Randall’s departure is related to last month’s House Judiciary Committee report, based on evidence in Randall’s testimony, that accused GMU President Gregory Washington of lying to Congress.

Reports Virginia Business: Randall … said that Washington retaliated against the law school for the dean’s decision not to appoint an equity adviser for hiring decisions, and Randall also accused Washington of apparently sabotaging an American Bar Association accreditation audit of Scalia Law School.

In 2022, Washington “appeared to sabotage a regular American Bar Association accreditation ‘inspection’ of Scalia Law School, telling ABA inspectors that George Mason may be unable to continue to financially support the law school,” Randall testified. “This jeopardized the law school’s accreditation and resulted in the ABA putting Scalia Law School on probation.”

According to the transcript, Randall said Washington, when speaking with ABA examiners, “volunteered that he didn’t know whether the university was going to be able to support the law school [financially] in the same manner it had previously supported the law school.”

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