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Lawsuits resulting from Title IX cases on college and university campuses are not uncommon. They typically result from students who believe their institutions didn’t handle a Title IX case properly. Class-action lawsuits...

28-year-old Alexis Hawkins posted her message on LinkedIn, just after she graduated from the Howard University School of Law: “This accomplishment represents so many things but most importantly it is proof that ANY thing is...

We hear a lot these days about prison reform: about racial and economic disparities in our justice system; about what prison does to those who are sent there; and what it does to the families and communities left behind. We...

Title IX law is in constant flux, with new rules and legal challenges continuing to shape how schools, colleges, and other institutions handle sex-based misconduct and discrimination.  Our firm closely monitors these...

Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial has drawn battles lines all over Hollywood. But now, the battle is reaching higher education and Howard University in Washington, D.C. The Cosby Case In September of 2018, a Pennsylvania...

Homelessness impacts students of all ages and can have adverse effects on their education. Not only does being without a home or in an unstable housing situation affect a student’s ability to study and pass their classes,...

Title IX policies on college campuses aim to protect students, faculty, and staff from sexual harassment and gender discrimination. While these policies and the administrators who oversee them often do their job to provide justice...

The American Institute of Physics news aggregator Phys.org recently ran an article on how colleges and universities need new definitions for cheating. The article correctly argues that learning has grown more collaborative as...

Times Higher Education’s online journal The Campus recently published an article advocating that professors abandon their “holier than thou” attitude toward students on the subject of cheating. The article made the...

When people think of sexual assault cases on university campuses, it is common to instinctively favor women because of the nature of these types of assaults. It is also of equal importance to make sure that claims of this kind are...

It is fair to say that many institutions of higher education pride themselves on critical thinking and individual thought and expression of their students within reason. Some universities, however, don’t subscribe to this...

Schools Move Toward Anti-Sexual Harassment Training A recent article in the University of South Carolina’s Daily Gamecock online student newspaper reports that beginning in the Fall of 2021, mandatory anti-sexual...

Last May, thousands of students from the University of Vermont (UVM) organized a Survivors Solidarity Walkout to protest the university’s handling of on-campus sexual assault. Students claimed that UVM administrators did not...

PART TWO President Joe Biden’s decision to nominate controversial Obama Administration assistant secretary for civil rights Catherine Lhamon to return to her old post as de facto Title IX czar is definitely one to watch....

PART ONE President Joe Biden recently nominated the former Obama Administration assistant secretary for civil rights Catherine Lhamon to return to her old Department of Education post as de facto Title IX czar. Lhamon’s...

Eighteen midshipmen in the U.S. Naval Academy have been expelled following an investigation into allegations of cheating. Of the 650 midshipmen who took an online physics exam last year, 105 were investigated for using...

As minors under the jurisdiction of their schools, high school, and elementary students do not have an unlimited right to free speech. Legally, these institutions have a right to regulate speech that might prove disruptive to the...

Recently, LSU’s head football coach, Ed Orgeron, was added to a Title IX lawsuit against LSU. Concurrently, a professor and another football player were added to the lawsuit as well. The two latter addendums were both...

Student athletes on college campuses sit in a unique and vulnerable position: highly visible, often treated like stars, they are also easy targets for accusations of sexual misconduct. This was the case with three former football...

It’s hard to stay out of politics these days. Perhaps even more so for students, who are exercising the voices of critical thinking and opinion that they’ve acquired over the course of their education. What happens...