Is Yale Using Title IX to Trump Free Speech?
…most recent offering from Yale deputy provost Stephanie Spangler, which covers events on campus in the last six months of 2014, Yale’s “intimate partner violence” category has made its return,…
…most recent offering from Yale deputy provost Stephanie Spangler, which covers events on campus in the last six months of 2014, Yale’s “intimate partner violence” category has made its return,…
…rules ordered the nation’s colleges to stop using a clear-and-convincing standard of evidence, even though a Yale Law Journal article once observed that “Courts, universities and student defendants all seem…
…Academic Freedom and Tenure,’ Yale University’s Woodward Report, and the University of Chicago’s own Kalven Report as inspiring statements on the unique importance of free speech to any university community….
…exception in this regard; most colleges (Yale is another prominent example) broaden the definition, reflecting a campus ideological environment that’s extreme on issues relating to gender. Yet the vast majority…
…belief in the federal government’s ability to eradicated discrimination—whether real or imagined. Dedicated to Racial Redress After attending Yale Law School, Lhamon clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the…
…the paper had published (without any retraction, as a Times reporter recently affirmed) the Yale/Patrick Witt story in which reporter Richard Pérez-Peñaacknowledged that he had no idea who the accuser…
…died of an overdose.) The Business Model Universities, meanwhile, have adopted growth goals and corporate interestspreviously reserved for profit-making businesses. Yale has opened a branch in authoritarian Singapore, where academic…
…analogy would mean a decade ago, when I was invited to debate at Yale Law School. I made the case against same-sex marriage I have always made, which is that…
…staffer—even as Wesleyan had promised, much like the Witt case at Yale, that its proceedings would be confidential. (There appears to have been no investigation by Wesleyan as to who…
Last Saturday, Yale Law professor Jeb Rubenfeld had an important op-ed in the Times discussing the issue of how colleges respond to campus sexual assault. His argument? “Forced by the…
…professor of criminal law at Yale Law School. Rubenfeld wrote that “colleges are conducting trials, often presided over by professors and administrators who know little about law or criminal investigations….
…Jr., who at the time of his MacArthur grant was a 30- year-old assistant professor of English at Yale. Gates used the MacArthur funds to develop his craft and become…
The Federalist Society last Saturday sponsored a symposium at Yale Law School that discussed “Achieving Intellectual Diversity” on law school faculties. On one of the panels, I said that as…
…someone at Yale, and there’s no indication that Yale ever investigated the issue. Those procedures don’t trouble someone who allegedly “care[s] a lot about fair process”? As FIRE’s Ari Cohn…
…York Times. (Reports from Yale’s deputy provost give no indication that Yale ever brought the leaker up on disciplinary charges or, indeed, even investigated the leak.) Pérez-Peña, as is his…
…financial assistance.” In 1977, a Yale law student named Catherine McKinnon, tired of suffering on-campus sexual harassment that went unaddressed by the school, interpreted Title IX to argue that sexual…
…given was a straight A. Yale was not far behind with 62 % of its undergraduate grades reportedly in the A range. Princeton Goes It Alone College administrators are rarely…
…student “activists” who regularly appear in Pérez-Peña’s articles. A Yale student “active in Students Against Sexual Violence” tells the Times that “affirmative consent is an absolutely necessary standard . ….
…Yale Muslim Students Association (MSA). I say “discomfort” because that is what the MSA itself emphasized in its September 10th letter to the Yale community protesting her visit. Hearing about…
…ovations. The speech’s success was especially heartening in light of the Yale Muslim Students Association’s (MSA) efforts to block it. When the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale announced…
…go. As someone once paraphrased this point of view, it’s “Yale or jail.” The assumption is that college is the great equalizer–if only we could get low-income kids to enter…
Well, the 2015 U. S. News & World Report rankings are out, and here are the elite Top 10 for “National Universities”: 1. Princeton 2. Harvard 3. Yale 4. Columbia…
…website “Dr. Joy”—holds workshops around the country on “culture, race relations, and contemporary issues.” She lists among her clients Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Fisk, Smith, the University of Chicago, and Morehouse,…
…anything less than A’s? That’s why Yale Law School no longer has grades at all. It’s Yale, ‘nuff said, in each and every case. So there’s no way we at…
…Ivy-League Nudge-ucation”) Yale University President Peter Salovey has led the way by setting out a plan to hem in students with hundreds of petty behavior modification rules that he imagines…
…assigned to the same dorm, the accused student would have to move. Related: More Grotesque Sex Hearings at Yale Yale also referred the accused student for “sexual consent training.” (Yale’s…
…outrage not for Yale’s almost comical indifference to due process, but because the university revealed it hadn’t expelled students it deemed guilty of “nonconsensual” sex. Yale hadn’t done so because…
…generalization” leads to my second witness: Anthony Kronman, a former dean at Yale University who still teaches in Yale’s legendary directed studies program—a liberal, near as I can make out…
The issuance of the “Dear Colleague” letter in 2011 triggered a race to the bottom for due process in the Ivy League. The contest began with Yale, which adopted a…
…Institutions (Columbia and Harvard Law School); his predecessor similarly had two Ivy League degrees (from Yale College and Harvard Business School); his predecessor in turn was a graduate of Yale…