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A. Yale Law professors Amy Chua — she of Battle of the Tiger Mom infamy — and Jed Rubenfeld would allegedly advise their female students to dress “model-like” to help the students earn clerkships with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The Guardian

B. And now Yale Law School is desperately playing clean up after reports that some of its faculty members are giving wildly inappropriate advice. Above the Law

C. Harvard Law School also has to answer for Kavanaugh-related misdeeds, at least according to four current students who took the institution to task for paying the judge $27,490 for 9 days of teaching. Harvard Law Record

D. In super relatable news, some dude is suing Duke Law because he doesn’t want to take the LSAT. Duke Chronicle

E. Finally, to make sure you’re abreast on all the developments of boat law: In trying to console a Tropical Depression Florence survivor, President Trump pointed to a yacht that washed ashore near the survivor’s flooded home and noted that the the survivor that perhaps “got a nice boat out of the deal.” Clearly, Trump is very clueless a-boat the law, but fortunately he has a crack team of attorneys like Rudy Buoy-iani, Ty Bobb, and Michael Rowin’ to help clarify matters. The Hill