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"Judge Ken Starr
will be leaving his faculty status and tenure at Baylor
University's Law School," Starr and the school said in a joint
statement.
The resignation is effective immediately.
Starr rose to national prominence in the mid-1990s for his
exhaustive investigation of sex scandals surrounding
then-President Bill Clinton.
He was removed as President of Baylor in May, after an
independent report found administrators had mishandled sexual
abuse cases involving football players. In June, he resigned as
chancellor, but stayed on as law professor.
His law professor job was his remaining position at Baylor, the
world's largest Baptist university.
The investigation found that actions by Baylor administrators
directly discouraged students from reporting sexual assaults.
Universities around the country have adopted policies in recent
years to prevent sexual assaults on campus and to provide more
support for victims, after a number of cases involving light
punishment for offenders or stigmatizing of victims stirred
national outrage.
(Reporting by Fiona Ortiz in Chicago)
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