William Kidder | February 13, 2019 | Student Sexual Misconduct
AbstractPrevention of sexual assault and sexual harassment are major challenges at U.S. colleges and universities today. In recent years a vigorous law and policy debate emerged within the higher education community about Title IX and whether the “preponderance of...
Kenneth W. Simons and Jonathan Cardi | December 6, 2018 | Intentional Torts to Persons
Abstract The five thoughtful, incisive articles by Professors Bernstein, Chamallas, Geistfeld, Moore, and Sugarman offer a breathtaking range of perspectives on the Restatement, Third of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons (“ITR”). Some view tort law from the widest...
Lauren Klosinski | August 31, 2018 | Sexual Assault
A piece for the Washington Post explores the new rules being prepared by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that the Education Department plans to formally propose in September. These new rules will include procedural changes that will strengthen protections for students...
Josephine Ross | August 21, 2018 | Policing, Sexual Assault
ABSTRACT”What the #Metoo Campaign Teaches About Stop and Frisk” applies feminist tools to investigate current policing methods. Feminist tools exposed sexual harassment by listening to the stories of those affected, by a nuanced understanding of power...
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf | July 12, 2018 | Sexual Assault, Student Sexual Misconduct
Ohio State University has dissolved its sexual assault unit amid complaints that employees there told survivors they were lying about reports of sexual misconduct and that they suffered from mental illness or were “delusional.” The institution indicated, too, that the...
