It was a bad week for former law profs who have sued their school, after Jeffrey Malkan was banned from the campus of the law school where he once taught.
The University at Buffalo Law School banned Malkan, 61, who has not had a job since he left the Law School in 2009.
Malkan said the former dean, Makau W. Mutua, wrecked his ability to get a job by defaming him as a potential mass murderer. He has sued the school arguing the dean wrongfully fired him.
When a shooter went on a rampage Oct. 1 at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., Malkan sent off an email to about two dozen former colleagues, mentioning the shooting that killed 10 and injured seven.
“Every time this senseless and insane violence recurs, which is all too often,” he wrote, “I despair that I will ever recover my reputation and dignity.”
University officials said that email, along with two others referencing mass shootings, crossed a line. Citing the university’s “Workplace Violence Prevention” policy, they banned him from campus.
“It’s just absurd,” Malkan told the Buffalo News. “I don’t think a single person feels the slightest bit threatened by me.”
Malkan lives about 450 miles from Buffalo.
