Former special counsel Robert Mueller will help teach a class this fall about his investigation into former President Donald Trump’s campaign and alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Mueller, who conducted his investigation from 2017 through early 2019, will co-lead the course at the University of Virginia School of Law with former deputy special counsel Aaron Zebley, as well as Jim Quarles and Andrew Goldstein, who also participated in the investigation. Mueller is expected to lead at least one class in the course.
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“I was fortunate to attend UVA Law School after the Marine Corps, and I’m fortunate to be returning there now,” Mueller, a UVA Law graduate, said in a statement. “I look forward to engaging with the students this fall.”
The course, titled The Mueller Report and the Role of the Special Counsel, will be offered in six in-person sessions, according to the school. It will cover the history of the investigation from start to finish and touch on some of its more lurid moments, including the arrest of Trump affiliate Roger Stone.
Mueller said he hopes to attract other high-profile speakers associated with the investigation.
For the two years that Mueller, a former FBI director, conducted his investigation, speculation ran rampant that he would provide definitive proof that Trump had colluded with Russian operatives to defeat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. The famously tight-lipped Mueller did not allow much information to leak out about the investigation, only fueling Beltway gossip.
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When the Justice Department released the report in early 2019, Mueller’s work was met with much fanfare. But it was soon widely viewed as a failure because it did not provide damning evidence against Trump. In the few interviews he has given since, Mueller has defended his work as nonpartisan and fair.
“The report says all I have to say about the investigation,” Mueller told Chuck Rosenberg in February. “Having been a prosecutor for a period of time, I know and understand the role of the prosecutor is to develop facts and not theories. And consequently, I believed it was appropriate to put into the report issues that explain exactly what our findings were, and I refer you to the report.”
