How a Prominent Legal Group Could Change the Way Colleges Handle Rape
The American Law Institute, a scholarly group influential in legal circles, is beginning to craft guidelines on campus sexual assault…The campus-rape project, will involve developing “guiding principles” for college officials, courts, and legislatures to use as a resource…The principles will cover reporting, interim measures designed to help alleged victims, relations between campus and law-enforcement officials, and the adjudication of cases.