Harvard Law Fights Awful Ed Department Rules

Forbes ^ | February 2, 2015 | George Leef

[reaganaut1]

One of the salient features of the Obama administration has been its willingness to toss aside the rule of law whenever getting a result that its zealous officials and supporting interest groups want collides with fundamental fairness. Over the last couple of years, that impulse has manifested itself in the brazen demands by the Department of Education that colleges and universities abide by its regulations concerning sexual harassment and assault.

The notion that America’s campuses are gripped by an epidemic of sexual assault and tolerate a “rape culture” has never had any basis in fact. It is, however, a meme popular with the feminist left – a hobgoblin they find useful. Efforts at boosting it, such as the infamous Rolling Stone article about an evidently fictitious rape at the University of Virginia have flopped disastrously.

Nevertheless, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has been on a national blitzkrieg to compel colleges and universities to follow its blatantly one-sided rules for the adjudication of sexual harassment and assault complaints.

The rules, in short, make it extraordinary difficult for the accused student to defend himself.

This proved too much to swallow for a group of 28 Harvard Law School professors, who signed an open letter arguing that the rules are “inconsistent with many of the most basic principles we teach.” Such as?

[reaganaut1]

Being more leftist than Harvard Law professors says a lot.

[WayneS]

Is Awful Ed and Obama appointee?

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[WayneS]

Correction:

...AN Obama appointee...

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This is the legal framework that Harvard Law and other elite law schools created. Maybe not this rule in particular but the legal theories that led to it.

[UCANSEE2]

If I had a penny for every time I have seen (or done) that particular ‘typo’, F.R. would not have to worry about donation drives.