Jury Sides With Student Accused of Sexual Assault
This article details the case in which a former college student has won more than $100,000 in the first jury trial since the Obama administration rewrote rules on how college officials should...
View ArticlePolicing Race and Technology
The Brennan Center for Justice and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund are holding a symposium on "Policing Race and Technology" on Dec. 3, 2019. The symposim aims to center the racial justice...
View ArticleDOJ Announces Revised Export Control and Sanctions Enforcement Policy for...
On December 13, the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division announced a new policy designed to encourage business organizations to make voluntary self-disclosures to the DOJ in...
View ArticleHighlights from the Policing Project’s Convening on Facial Recognition
Several jurisdictions are using facial recognition to aid law enforcement—from helping identify suspects and witnesses, to locating missing children. At the same time, other jurisdictions have banned...
View ArticleUnited States Reaches Settlement with Utah State University to Address Sexual...
On Feb. 13, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah announced a settlement agreement with Utah State University to ensure the...
View ArticleLaw360 Article Reviews Juvenile Justice System in PA
An article for Law360 Access to Justice entitled “Wanted In Pennsylvania: A Fairer Justice System For Minors” examines Pennsylvania’s current juvenile justice system practices and the state’s plans for...
View ArticleRegistration and Notification
The current ALI project Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses is a re-examination of Article 213 of the Model Penal Code. This post presents Section 213. 12 (A-J) of the most recent...
View ArticleProviding Guidance in Campus Disciplinary Procedures
Deborah Tuerkheimer who serves as Adviser to ALI’s Student Sexual Misconduct: Procedural Frameworks for Colleges and Universities Principles project, discusses the special challenges of this area of...
View ArticleChanging the Law to Change Policing: Initial Steps
Several law school faculty, each of whom runs or is associated with a center devoted to the practice of policing and the criminal justice system, released the report “Changing the Law to Change...
View ArticlePolicing Principles
The American Law Institute is making the Sections of Principles of the Law, Policing that are approved by both ALI Council and membership available for free download. These Sections were presented in...
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