Student Sexual Misconduct Posts

U.S. Department of Education Proposes New Title IX Regulations

The Biden Administration’s Department of Education issued a new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on June 23, 2022 intended to overhaul the Trump Administration’s May 2020 Title IX regulations. A Department-prepared Fact Sheet and Chart summarize the proposed regulations.

Designing Informal Mechanisms for Claims of Campus Sexual Misconduct

This article provides ten guidelines for developing informal mechanisms for sexual misconduct claims using a “dispute systems design” (DSD) analytical framework: an interest-based design process that includes the expected users of the system as a means to ensure the system meets the needs of those who will be using it.

ALI’s Student Sexual Misconduct Black Letter Now Available

At ALI’s 2022 Annual Meeting, members of The American Law Institute voted to approve Principles of the Law, Student Sexual Misconduct: Procedural Frameworks for Colleges and Universities. The black letter of the project has been revised according to the discussion at the Meeting* and is now available for download.

October 2021 Council Meeting Updates

At its meeting on October 21 and 22, 2021, the Council reviewed and discussed Council Drafts and approved drafts and portions of drafts.

October 2020 Council Meeting Updates

At its meetings on October 13 and October 22-23, 2020, the Council reviewed and discussed Council Drafts of seven projects and approved drafts and portions of drafts.

Principles of the Law, Student Sexual Misconduct Referenced in CA Court of Appeals Dissent

In Boermeester v. Carry, a case involving former USC kicker Matt Boermeester who was expelled from the university in 2017 because of an intimate partner violence charge, the California Court of Appeal found that USC did not provide “a meaningful opportunity to cross-examine critical witnesses at an in-person hearing” as recognized under the new Title IX regulations.