Campus Sexual Assault

The group comes out against equal treatment before the law.

Betsy DeVos can issue new rules, but it’s no guarantee that she can change the cultural climate.

Tracing sexual politics and women’s rage in the Trump era.

Betsy DeVos undoes a major campus injustice.

The March 7 acquittal by a New Haven jury of a suspended Yale student on charges of raping a classmate has been much lamented on campus and in the national media. But a review of the evidence shows that the trial was fair, the defense was ethical, and there was much more than a reasonable doubt…

In November 2014, a female member of Brown University’s debate team had oral sex with a male colleague while they watched a movie. Eleven months later, she filed a complaint with Brown, accusing him of sexual assault.

American liberals think of themselves as champions of the excluded and ill-treated, friends of the little guy persecuted by the system. Their instinctive sympathy for the disadvantaged and overlooked is evidence of a charitable worldview and a peculiar inheritance of Christian humanism. For a…

Give the Trump Education Department credit for rescinding the Obama Ed’s “Dear Colleague” letter of 2011 and opening a discussion about the meaning of Title IX. Under that law, “No person shall . . . on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected…

Eight months into the Trump administration, a long-awaited campaign to unwind Obama’s legacy on Title IX appears to have begun in earnest. Early Thursday afternoon in a speech at George Mason University, Betsy DeVos condemned the Obama administration’s 2011 “Dear Colleague Letter,” that has had an…

Title IX is a Nixon-era federal law barring sex discrimination in schools. Under the Obama administration, it became a mandate for colleges to adjudicate claims of sexual misconduct with an imbalanced extrajudicial standard. The Department of Education’s infamous “Dear Colleague Letter” of April…

The statistic that 1-in-5 college women are the victims of sexual assault is so ubiquitous, and advocates so insistent that "the science is settled," that it can lead to predictable outrage when different reports—like a new analysis from the American Association of University Women showing 89…

Dismantling Obama-era over-regulation is supposed to be a top priority of the Trump administration. And few regulations have caused as much consternation as Obama's reinterpretation of Title IX. Alas, no amount of subsequent policy can easily disentangle this overreach from campus life.

For nearly six years now, a federal mandate has manhandled American colleges. The Department of Education's 2011 guidance on campus sexual misconduct reinterpreted a gender parity law—Title IX of the Higher Education Act—to police colleges' responses to reported sexual assaults. In so doing, the…

For nearly six years now, a federal mandate has manhandled American colleges. The Department of Education’s 2011 guidance on campus sexual misconduct reinterpreted a gender parity law—Title IX of the Higher Education Act—to police colleges' responses to reported sexual assaults. In so doing, the…

President-elect Trump's pick for education secretary just had her nomination hearings delayed a week, but the media aren't wasting any time lining up breathless attacks on Betsy DeVos. At Politico, there's this astonishing headline: "DeVos' donations spark questions about her stance on campus…

In case your awareness hadn't been sufficiently raised, the Obama White House, once more in its final weeks, elevated the campus rape narrative that it has helped spin into a panicky national conversation. The "It's On Us" campaign, launched in 2014 to combat "rape culture," bid farewell to its…

The Survivors' Bill of Rights is poised to receive unanimous support in the House in the coming days, just as it did in the Senate in June. It's an uncontroversial bipartisan bill to straighten out one troublesome kink in the difficult process of treating sexual assault victims.

If you've spent much time on a college campus in the last couple of years, you may have seen a lush quad and neo-gothic cloister interrupted by fliers screaming "Yes Means Yes!" According to recent research on sexual consent among college students, you wouldn't be wrong to wonder whom the unsubtle…

Even though Democrats, activists and the media insist campus sexual assault is such an "epidemic" we have to eviscerate due process rights to solve it, there has been little mention of the issue at the Democratic National Convention.

This week, the president and vice president revealed plans to intensify their personal crusade against campus "rape culture." President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will "put the pedal to the metal," per the Washington Post: They, their wives, and cabinet members won't set foot on college…

A panel on “Grappling with Campus Rape" was part of the "Hot Topic" program at the American Association of Law Schools annual meeting, held January 6-10 in midtown Manhattan. Indeed, that issue has been the focus of particularly intense polemics in academia. A number of law professors, even some…

On Monday I detailed how the Washington Post's survey claiming that one in five women have been sexually assaulted in college is deeply flawed. But there was an aspect of the survey I didn't get to, one that does not bode well for the future of relationships among students.