YALE: College Sex Meets the Star Chamber

October 24, 2016

History buffs will recall that the Star Chamber was used in England in the 16th and 17th centuries to crush political and religious dissent. The Founding Fathers regarded the secret and arbitrary Star Chamber as so unfair that they crafted many of our constitutional protections precisely to avoid its abuses. And yet, centuries later, Yale’s University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct employs procedures eerily similar to those of the Star Chamber… Yale’s tribunals are less fair to the accused than even the dreaded Star Chamber.

wsj.com By Jennifer C. Braceras