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Eyes Wide Shut: Using Accreditation Regulation To Address The “Pass-The-Harasser” Problem In Higher Education, Susan Saab Fortney, Theresa Morris

Faculty Scholarship

The #MeToo Movement cast a spotlight on sexual harassment in various sectors, including higher education. Studies reveal alarming percentages of students reporting that they have been sexually harassed by faculty and administrators. Despite annually devoting hundreds of millions of dollars to addressing sexual harassment and misconduct, nationwide university officials largely take an ostrich approach when hiring faculty and administrators with little or no scrutiny related to their past misconduct. Critics use the term “pass the harasser” or more pejoratively, “pass the trash” to capture the role that institutions play in allowing individuals to change institutions without the new employer learning …

Let Go Of Your Sexual Privacy Or Be Let Go? The Woe Of Public Employees, Sofya Bakradze

Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review

The issue of sexual freedom as a subset of the general right to privacy, while not novel, is still highly controversial both legally and socially. The Circuit Courts of Appeals have yet to agree whether the leading case on the issue, Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), affirmatively established the fundamental right to sexual privacy. The answer to this question means the difference between a world where off-duty sexual conduct stays private and respected by the government employers and a world where a public employee can be terminated without due process for his or her intimate activities. As a …

Predictive Scheduling Is Trending: Is Milwaukee Next?, Kelly J. Lyden

Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review

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Due Process Supreme Court Appellate Division Third Department

Touro Law Review

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For Mert Bernstein, Inventor Of A Field, Lance Liebman

Faculty Scholarship

Life brings odd cycles and conjunctions.

More than twenty years ago, as a brand new law teacher, I was assigned by Dean Derek Bok to teach "urban law." I said, "Derek, what is that?" He said: "You have been Assistant to Mayor Lindsay of New York for two years. You figure it out."