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KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The outcome of the ethics case against former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline probably will not affect his ability to teach at the Liberty University School of Law.
That was the word from law school dean Mathew Staver after a disciplinary board last week recommended indefinitely suspending Kline from the practice of law in Kansas because of conduct in his pursuit of abortion clinics.
The case, arising from Kline's investigations of Planned Parenthood and George Tiller, will ultimately be decided by the Kansas Supreme Court.
Kline already let his Kansas law license lapse because he didn't pay the annual fee.
Staver said Friday that the school had looked into the nature of the complaints, which he said have arisen from a politically charged atmosphere in Kansas. "It is unlikely that it would affect his ability to teach," Staver said.
"We certainly would take any revocation of a license very seriously. At the same time, that particular incident was a number of years ago. What he's doing now really is unconnected to what he did back then as an attorney general or a district attorney."
As a visiting law professor, Kline works like other full-time professors but doesn't have a vote with the tenured faculty on making academic policy.
"Students have always given him very high reviews and remarks. He's very engaged and engaging," Staver said.
Founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, the Christian university in Lynchburg, Va., has an on-campus enrollment of 12,500 students. The law school has about 300 students.
