Lauren Klosinski | July 5, 2018 | American Indian Law, Sexual Assault
From The Intercept: In the mid-2000s, the area surrounding the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota began to undergo a massive transformation after corporations figured out they could access vast wells of oil from the Bakken shale formation using fracking...
Pauline Toboulidis | December 8, 2017 | Student Sexual Misconduct
In “The Takedown of Title IX: Inside the fight over federal rules on campus sexual assault,” The New York Times highlights the tension between addressing sexual assault allegations and ensuring the due process rights of the accused during campus proceedings. The...
Stephanie A. Middleton | November 6, 2017 | Sexual Assault
ALI’s Sexual Assault project will update the Sexual Offenses provisions in Article 213 of the 1962 Model Penal Code. The project will define and grade offenses based on the act—what a person does—and the person’s culpability or mental state. In order to understand the...
Stephen J. Schulhofer | October 24, 2017 | Sexual Assault
This piece first appeared in Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice. Introduction In this Article, I undertake two distinct tasks. First, I want to discuss what the laws against sexual assault ideally should look like. But second, I also want to...
Alysa Landry | August 10, 2017 | American Indian Law
A new Navajo law criminalizes human trafficking on the country’s largest American Indian reservation. Navajo President Russell Begaye on August 7 signed the Navajo Nation Law against Human Trafficking, signaling his commitment to take a stance against an international...
