23 CORNELL LAW Profs File Amicus Brief Supporting Falsely Accused Male Student
We’ve covered Cornell’s Title IX woes a ridiculous number of times, but the Ivy League school’s capacity to publicly embarrass itself is practically limitless. A third of its law school faculty has gone to court to force the school to follow its own Title IX rules. The March 25 brief was filed by Prof. Sheri Lynn Johnson, and it has a single purpose: to call out Cornell for depriving an accused student his Cornell-granted right “to test his accuser’s account of events and credibility by having a disciplinary hearing panel ask his accuser proper questions that he proposes. … This right was not honored here.” The professors are concerned that if Cornell is allowed to ignore its own procedures in this case, it will continue to do so in future Title IX cases, as will other colleges who see there are no consequences to flouting their explicit promises to students.
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