Jury Sides With Student Accused of Sexual Assault
This article details the case in which a former college student has won more than $100,000 in the first jury trial since the Obama administration rewrote rules on how college officials should adjudicate campus sexual violence.
Judge Murphy’s Indian Law Legacy
This Article highlights the contributions that Judge Diana Murphy made to federal Indian law jurisprudence and its real world impact.
Jacques: Cross-exams New Challenge for Campus Sex ‘Courts’
Campus investigations and hearings surrounding alleged sexual misconduct are increasingly mimicking actual courtrooms, posing some serious learning curves for administrators — and students — who find themselves caught up in the process.
Consumer Contracts and the Restatement Project
The Restatement project presumes the exercise of nonpartisan judgment. Some criticisms of the draft are more political tracts than analytic critiques. Because the Draft does a good job analyzing and distilling the law, the real question in this debate is whether the ALI and the Restatement project as a whole can withstand efforts to use the tools and standards of retail politics to defeat the analytic approach of the Draft. To the extent such efforts succeed, the Restatement concept as a whole will fail.
Reservation Residents Face Long Road To Justice
An article for Law360 Access to Justice addresses the often extreme circumstances, and vast distances, indigenous victims, defendants and witnesses must traverse in order to testify in court.
In Indian Country, A ‘Maze Of Injustice’ Persists For Women
An article for Law360 Access to Justice details the complicated maze indigenous women must navigate in order to obtain legal protection when faced with domestic and sexual violence.
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