Gripped by ‘dinner party-gate,’ Yale Law confronts a venomous divide A dispute centering on the celebrity professor Amy Chua exposes a culture pitting student against student, professor against professor. Amy Chua at her home in New Haven, Connecticut, on May 24, 2021. Christopher Capozziello / The New York Times By Sarah Lyall and Stephanie Saul, New York Times Service June 9, 2021 | 2:13 PM Email NEW HAVEN, Conn. — On March 26, a group of students at Yale Law School approached the dean’s office with an unusual accusation: Amy Chua, one of the school’s most popular but polarizing professors, had been hosting drunken dinner parties with students, and possibly federal judges, during the pandemic.