Theorizing Consent, Session One: The Current State of Title IX Law

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Session One of the conference Theorizing Consent: Educational and Legal Perspectives on Campus Rape organized by Dr. Thomas Hubbard of the University of Texas at Austin. For media coverage, abstracts, and speaker bios, visit the conference website: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/classics/events/theorizing-consent-educational-and-legal-perspectives-on-campus-rape1/index.php Nancy Cantalupo (Law, Barry University), “For the Title IX Civil Rights Movement: Congratulations and Cautions” Nancy Chi Cantalupo earned her Bachelor’s and J.D. degrees from Georgetown University and a LL.M. degree from Temple University. She joined Barry University School of Law as an Assistant Professor in 2015. Prior to joining Barry, she was Associate Vice President for Equity, Inclusion & Violence Prevention at a higher education professional association, an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law, and a Research Fellow with the Victim Rights Law Center. She also served as Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs at Georgetown Law and Associate Director of the International Legal Studies Program at American University's Washington College of Law, and practiced with the firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. Professor Cantalupo’s scholarship focuses on the use of law to combat discriminatory violence, particularly gender-based violence. She is a nationally-recognized expert on gender-based violence in education, and her scholarship draws from her 20 years of anti-campus sexual violence work as a researcher, campus administrator, victims’ advocate, attorney, and policymaker. This work included consultations with the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, participation on a U.S. Senate roundtable, and testimony before the Maryland and Virginia state legislatures. Professor Cantalupo was also selected by the U.S. Department of Education to serve as a Primary Negotiator on the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee that was charged with implementing amendments to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act made by the 2013 Violence Against Women Act. Laura L. Dunn (Law, University of Maryland; SurvJustice) “Campus Sexual Assault as an Institutional Balancing Act: Procedural Requirements under VAWA" Laura L. Dunn is a nationally recognized victim rights attorney routinely featured in national media. In 2007, Dunn graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.A. in Psychology & Pre-Law and a Certificate in Criminal Justice. In 2014, Dunn received a J.D. from the University of Maryland Carey School of Law graduating Order of the Barristers and receiving the William P. Cunningham Award for her national advocacy on campus sexual assault, which included lobbying to pass the 2013 VAWA Reauthorization, advising the White House Task Force to Protect Students Against Sexual Assault, and serving as a primary negotiator on the U.S. Department of Education’s VAWA Rulemaking Committee. Dunn is also the founder and Executive Director of SurvJustice, which provides legal services to survivors across the country and trains institutions of higher education on compliance with Title IX and the Clery Act. Dunn is also an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law teaching the course Sexual Violence & Harassment in Education.