Seven years after making her name for Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a memoir about her controversial parenting choices, Amy Chua re-entered the national stage in July as a cheerleader for the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the pages of the The Wall Street Journal.

Now, a week after Professor Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh became public, Chua is facing criticism for an even more direct, and disconcerting, connection to Kavanaugh. The Guardian reported Thursday that multiple sources claim that Chua and her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, offered inappropriate advice to students hoping to win prestigious positions as clerks for Kavanaugh. She reportedly told her students that it’s ”no accident” that Kavanaugh’s clerks “looked like models,” and offered advice to dress in an “outgoing” manner for interviews. Rubenfeld reportedly told a prospective clerk that Kavanaugh liked a certain “look.”

Rubenfeld’s conduct, specifically, is now under investigation at Yale, he confirmed in a statement to The Guardian. He added, “For some years, I have contended with personal attacks and false allegations in reaction to my writing on difficult and controversial but important topics in the law. I have reason to suspect I am now facing more of the same. . . . Nevertheless, I stand ready to engage with this process in the hope that it can be expeditiously concluded.” A request for comment was not immediately returned. According to Above the Law, a letter asking for information about his behavior circulated among alumni during the summer, and the publication has received complaints from multiple alumni who wish to remain anonymous while the investigation is ongoing. In a statement to The Guardian, a spokesperson for the law school mentioned that they were previously unaware of any allegations about clerkships.

Though she became famous for the tongue-in-cheek memoir in which she fessed up to harsh parenting practices, Chua focuses on international business and ethnic conflict in her legal work. She has canceled all of her classes this semester, and, according to her husband, she is currently hospitalized for a serious illness.

Chua has served on the faculty committee guiding clerkship placement at Yale for the last decade. In her op-ed for the Journal, Chua noted that of the 10 clerks she has sent to Kavanaugh, eight were women. She also noted her own daughter would have clerked for Kavanaugh this year had he not been nominated.

Though Ford’s allegations are the first that have accused Kavanaugh directly of sexual assault, his mentor, Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th District of Federal Court of Appeals stepped down in December 2017 after multiple allegations of harassment. (When he resigned, Kozinski apologized for making clerks “feel uncomfortable,” but has otherwise declined to comment.) Kavanaugh denied any knowledge of Kozinski’s behavior during his confirmation hearing last week. On September 14, a former law clerk of Kozinski’s Heidi Bond, observed in Slate that the environment of Kozinski’s chambers was pervasive during her time, and that the judge kept an e-mail list where he often sent sexist jokes.

Chua denied these claims in a statement to The Guardian, writing that “there is good reason so many of them have gone on to Supreme Court clerkships; he only hires those who are extraordinarily qualified.”