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Boswell Hall (formerly Morton Hall), Room 314
100 Ukrop Way
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location

Amid a nationwide conversation about sexual assault on campus, colleges and universities across the country are instituting reforms in their process of adjudicating allegations of sexual assault. In the absence of a general consensus as to what adjudicatory structures will meet the need to produce just outcomes, academic institutions have mostly been "going it on their own" and have produced systems which differ widely on a number of important variables. This talk outlines the basic tenets of the major emerging models of sexual assault on campus and evaluates those models from a core perspective: that any acceptable model for adjudicating these cases must produce outcomes which both deliver justice for victims of sexual assault and offer adequate rights and protections to accused perpetrators. The emerging models differ significantly in their capacity to achieve both goals.