Chua and Rubenfeld are stars in the legal field, and Chua in particular has a reputation for successfully placing Yale graduates in high-profile clerkships. As children, both daughters attended the Hopkins School in New Haven, which boasted tuition costs of $43,500 during the 2018–2019 academic year. Chua and her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, are professors at Yale Law School, the same institution that later graduated their daughter Sophia. Meritocracy was always the myth at the heart of the tiger mother brand. For her own daughter, she wrote, “there is no judge I would trust more than Brett Kavanaugh to be, in one former clerk’s words, ‘a teacher, advocate, and friend.’” At the time, Chua faced criticism that her op-ed was intended to give her daughter a spot working for Kavanaugh, something Sophia denied, claiming she had no intention of taking on a clerkship in the coming year because she had to finish her ROTC obligation after graduating.
In July 2018, Chua lauded Kavanaugh’s credentials as an advocate for women in an editorial for the Wall Street Journal.
But Sophia’s achievement may have little to do with her mother’s parenting, or the work ethic she supposedly prized. And on Monday, she had a new accomplishment to announce: a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.įor aspiring lawyers, Supreme Court clerkships are highly desirable - they’re tickets to positions at the best firms, or the first step in a career that may someday culminate in the clerk’s own judgeship. Sophia, the oldest, graduated from Yale Law School just last year. Her daughters ascended the ranks of American excellence and attended Ivy League schools.
Nearly ten years after the publication of her book, it looked like Chua’s methods worked. But all the pushing, all the rules, all those inordinately high expectations, stemmed from one impulse: she wanted her daughters to succeed - to become accomplished musicians and star students, the sort of people who scale the heights of America’s meritocracy. In the book, Chua relates the episode as a prelude of parenting battles to come as a mom, she says she was a harsh taskmaster, prone to excesses she occasionally regrets. Lulu was banished for an act of musical overenthusiasm she kept smashing keys on the piano, while her mother wanted her to press one at a time. In her controversial 2011 memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale law professor Amy Chua admits that she once sent her toddler daughter Lulu to stand outside in 20-degree weather wearing only a skirt and a sweater.
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