Jennifer Morinigo | October 29, 2020 | Sexual Assault
Although the 2020 Annual Meeting was cancelled this year, the Reporters produced the fourth Tentative Draft (TD4) of Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses (MPC:SA) and they are looking forward to receiving written comments. The Draft includes most...
Aya Gruber | October 14, 2020 | Sentencing, Sexual Assault
Aya Gruber of University of Colorado Law School has posted #MeToo and Mass Incarceration (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: This Symposium Guest Editor’s Note is an adapted version of the Introduction to The Feminist War on Crime:...
Jennifer Morinigo, Stephen J. Schulhofer and Erin E. Murphy | February 20, 2020 | Sexual Assault
The current ALI project Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses is a re-examination of Article 213 of the Model Penal Code. This post presents Section 213.12 (A-J) of the most recent project draft (Council Draft No. 10, printed on December 13,...
Jennifer Morinigo | January 28, 2020 | American Indian Law, Children and the Law, Conflict of Laws, Government Ethics, Property, Sexual Assault, Student Sexual Misconduct, Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons
At its meeting in Philadelphia on January 16 and 17, 2020, the Council reviewed and discussed Council Drafts of ten projects and approved drafts and portions of drafts as listed below.*American Indian Law: The Council approved Council Draft No. 6, containing all...
Lauren Klosinski | October 22, 2019 | Children and the Law, Compliance and Enforcement for Organizations, Policing, Property, Sexual Assault, Student Sexual Misconduct
At its meeting in New York City on October 17 and 18, 2019, the Council reviewed and approved drafts of seven projects.*Children and the Law: The Council approved § 2.22 from Chapter 2, State Intervention for Abuse and Neglect; § 4.10 from Chapter 4, Emancipation of...
Walter Olson | August 13, 2019 | Sexual Assault
Many colleges have adopted a principle known as “affirmative consent,” which makes it easier to infer misconduct (and thus impose expulsion or other discipline) when a record is lacking in verbal or physical evidence one way or the other as to whether a student’s...
