Principles of the Law,
Topics addressed in this project include reporting procedures; confidentiality; relationships with police and local criminal justice; interim measures and support for complainants; investigation and adjudication; the role of lawyers; the creation and maintenance of records; sanctions or remedies; and appeals. The project also examines informal resolutions, as well as the nature of hearings.
Drafting of this project is completed; the official text is expected to be published in early 2025.
For an in-depth description of this project, please visit the Student Sexual Misconduct page of The ALI Adviser.
E. Thomas Sullivan
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Vicki C. Jackson
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Katharine T. Bartlett
Duke University School of Law (Retired), Durham, NC
Cynthia G. Bowman
Cornell Law School
Deborah L. Brake
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA
Susan L. Carney
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, New Haven, CT
Denny Chin
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, New York, NY
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace, Menlo Park, CA
José A. Cárdenas
Arizona State University, Office of General Counsel, Tempe, AZ
Marjory Fisher
Columbia University
Michael S. Frisch
Georgetown University Law Center
Rachel Gettler
U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Jamie S. Gorelick
WilmerHale, Washington, DC
Fatima Goss Graves
National Women's Law Center, Washington, DC
Cathy J. Green
Shaheen & Gordon, P.A.
Jane Cutler Greenspan
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Retired), Philadelphia, PA
Robb Jones
United Educators (Retired), Sterling, VA
Derek P. Langhauser
Maine Maritime Academy and Community Colleges, Cumberland Foreside, ME
Douglas Laycock
University of Virginia School of Law (Retired), Charlottesville, VA
Judith Leonard
Phoenix, AZ
David F. Levi
Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC
M. Elizabeth Magill
University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, Philadelphia, PA
Margaret H. Marshall
Choate Hall & Stewart LLP, Cambridge, MA
Martin Michaelson
Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, DC
Blake D. Morant
George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC
Melissa Murray
New York University School of Law, New York, NY
Sharon L. Nelles
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY
Richard Paez
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Harvey S. Perlman
University of Nebraska College of Law, Lincoln, NE
Steven G. Poskanzer
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Judith Resnik
Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
Lauren K. Robel
Indiana University, Maurer School of Law, Falmouth, MA
Xavier Rodriguez
U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, San Antonio, TX
Daniel B. Rodriguez
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL
Vincent D. Rougeau
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Frederick P. Schaffer
City University of New York School of Law (Retired), New York, NY
Gina M. Smith
Cozen O'Connor, Philadelphia, PA
Dean A. Strang
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL
Deborah Tuerkheimer
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL
Michael Vatis
Benesch, New York, NY
Wendy S. White
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Mary Katherine Burke
RAINN, Washington, DC
Laura Dunn
L.L. Dunn Law Firm, PLLC
Cynthia Garrett
Families Advocating for Campus Equality, ANACORTES, WA
Daniella Gordon
McCarter & English, LLP
Rebecca Henry
ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence
Ebony Tucker
National Alliance to End Sexual Violence
Raheemah F. Abdulaleem
Executive Office of the President, Office of Administration, Washington, DC
Aviva Abramovsky
University of Idaho College of Law, Moscow, ID
Jane H. Aiken
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC
Raquel E. Aldana
University of California, Davis School of Law, Davis, CA
José F. Anderson
University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD
Michelle J. Anderson
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
John S. Applegate
Indiana University, Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, IN
Susan Frelich Appleton
Washington University School of Law, Saint Louis, MO
Charles L. Babcock
Jackson Walker LLP, Houston, TX
Miriam H. Baer
Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY
Joseph R. Bankoff
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Lara Bazelon
University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco, CA
Phyllis W. Beck
Independence Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
John S. Beckerman
New Harbor, ME
Dianne Bennett
Hodgson Russ LLP (Retired), Buffalo, NY
Stephanos Bibas
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, Philadelphia, PA
Luke Bierman
Elon University School of Law, Greensboro, NC
Kristine Bowman
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Willard L. Boyd
Nyemaster Goode, PC, Des Moines, IA
David M. Brodsky
Brodsky ADR LLC, Wainscott, NY
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA
Russell J. Bruemmer
WilmerHale (Retired), Washington, DC
Ellen M. Bublick
Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Phoenix, AZ
Philip Burling
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
José A. Cabranes
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, New Haven, CT
Sarah Keeton Campbell
Tennessee Supreme Court, Nashville, TN
Elena A. Cappella
Philadelphia, PA
Alexander M. Capron
University of Southern California, Gould School of Law (Retired), Newmarket, NH
Catherine L. Carpenter
Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA
Catherine C. Carr
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Philadelphia, PA
Karen R. Carroll
Vermont Supreme Court, Vernon, VT
Peter H. Carson
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP (Retired), San Francisco, CA
Nicole B. Casarez
University of St. Thomas, Evergreen, CO
William Richard Casto
Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, TX
Frank P. Cervone
Support Center for Child Advocates (Retired), Philadelphia, PA
Henry L. Chambers
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VA
Steven L. Chanenson
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, Villanova, PA
Steve Charnovitz
George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC
Gabriel J. Chin
University of California, Davis School of Law, Davis, CA
Stephen Yee Chow
Stephen Y. Chow, PC, Boston, MA
James W. Christie
Burns White, Philadelphia, PA
Penelope L. Christophorou
Morgan Lewis Bockius LLP, New York, NY
Dane S. Ciolino
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Metairie, LA
Neil Howard Cogan
Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA
Sarah Rudolph Cole
The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, Columbus, OH
John J. Connolly
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, Baltimore, MD
Carolyn F. Corwin
Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC
Beverly Winslow Cutler
Alaska Superior Court, Third Judicial District, Palmer, AK
Karen Czapanskiy
University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore, MD
Kenneth Glenn Dau-Schmidt
Indiana University, Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, IN
Camille Davidson
Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, MN
George A. Davidson
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, NY
Kimberly A. Demarchi
Arizona State University, Office of General Counsel, Tempe, AZ
Nora V. Demleitner
St. John's College, Annapolis, MD
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, Villanova, PA
Brackett B. Denniston
Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA
Deborah W. Denno
Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY
John L. Diamond
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Darby Dickerson
Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA
Joshua Dressler
The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, Columbus, OH
Jennifer Ann Drobac
Indiana University, Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, IN
Christine Michelle Duffy
Haverhill, MA
Suzanne M. Dugan
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC
Stephen S. Dunham
Penn State University, University Park, PA
Holly A. Dyer
Foulston Siefkin LLP, Wichita, KS
Ira Mark Ellman
Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law (Retired), Berkeley, CA
Craig T. Enoch
Enoch Kever PLLC, Austin, TX
Anthony C. Epstein
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Katie R. Eyer
Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ
Boris Feldman
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, Redwood City, CA
Herbert L. Fenster
Covington & Burling LLP (Retired), Longmont, CO
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Philadelphia, PA
Arthur Norman Field
Field Consulting Services LLC, New York, NY
Daniel M. Filler
Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Philadelphia, PA
Michael E. Flowers
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, Columbus, OH
Joan Flynn
National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC
Susan S. Fortney
Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX
Simone R. D. Francis
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., St. Thomas, VI
Mary Anne Franks
George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC
Paul L. Friedman
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Haley J. Fromholz
Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles (Retired), Pasadena, CA
Joseph D. Garrison
Garrison, Levin-Epstein, Fitzgerald & Pirrotti PC, New Haven, CT
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY
Jacob E. Gersen
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Jeannie Suk Gersen
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Nancy Gertner
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Daniel C. Girard
Girard Sharp LLP, San Francisco, CA
Leigh S. Goodmark
University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore, MD
Randy Gordon
Duane Morris LLP, Dallas, TX
Paul J. Van de Graaf
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Michael D. Green
Washington University School of Law, Saint Louis, MO
Linda Sheryl Greene
Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, MI
Michael Greenwald
Philadelphia, PA
Charles E. Griffin
Butler Snow LLP, Ridgeland, MS
Joanna L. Grossman
Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law, Dallas, TX
Seth Grossman
American University, Washington, DC
Aya Gruber
University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA
James B. Halpern
ArentFox Schiff (Retired), Bethesda, MD
Vivian Eulalia Hamilton
William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, VA
Beth Heifetz
Jones Day, Washington, DC
Joan M. Heminway
University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, TN
Ronald K. Henry
Arnold & Porter (Retired), Washington, DC
Daniel Earle Hinde
Dan Hinde PLLC, Houston, TX
Adam L. Hoeflich
Bartlit Beck LLP, Chicago, IL
Jill R. Horwitz
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, Los Angeles, CA
Wesley L. Hsu
U.S. District Court, Central District of California, Los Angeles, CA
Edwin E. Huddleson
Washington, DC
John A. Humbach
Pace University, Elisabeth Haub School of Law, White Plains, NY
Richard Hyland
Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ
William S. Brewbaker III
University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, AL
Anthony C. Infanti
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA
Robert A. James
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco, CA
Kirk C. Jenkins
Half Moon Bay, CA
Richard Gibbs Johnson
RGJ LLC, Cleveland, OH
Emily J. Joselson
Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP, Middlebury, VT
Gregory A. Kalscheur
Boston College Law School, Chestnut Hill, MA
Richard B. Katskee
Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC
Henry R. Kaufman
Henry R. Kaufman, P.C., New York, NY
Michael Edward Keasler
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (Retired), Austin, TX
Michael J. Keating
IntegTree LLC, Saint Louis, MO
Virginia M. Kendall
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Evelyn V. Keyes
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Retired), Houston, TX
Edwin A. Kilburn
ITT, Scottsdale, AZ
Mark R. Killenbeck
University of Arkansas School of Law, Leflar Law Center (Retired), Fayetteville, AR
Linda A. Klein
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Atlanta, GA
Miriam A. Krinsky
Fair and Just Prosecution, Los Angeles, CA
Corinna Barrett Lain
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VA
Sybil H. Landau
New York, NY
Howard Langer
Langer, Grogan & Diver, P.C., Philadelphia, PA
Herbert I. Lazerow
University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA
Paul A. LeBel
University of North Dakota School of Law (Retired), Williamsburg, VA
George W. Liebmann
Liebmann & Shively, P.A., Baltimore, MD
Gail A. Lione
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
Jessica D. Litman
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
Mark J. Loewenstein
University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, CO
Ann M. Lousin
University of Illinois College of Law, Chicago, IL
Margaret Colgate Love
Law Office of Margaret Love, Washington, DC
Houston Putnam Lowry
Ford & Paulekas, LLP, Hartford, CT
Linda A. Malone
William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, VA
C. Scott Maravilla
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC
Richard D. Marks
Health Record Banking Alliance, Charlottesville, VA
Amie C. Martinez
Anderson, Creager & Wittstruck, P.C., LLO, Lincoln, NE
Margaret Penny Mason
Barclay Damon LLP, New Haven, CT
Mary Massaron
Plunkett Cooney, P.C., Bloomfield Hills, MI
James R. Maxeiner
University of Baltimore School of Law (Retired), Bronxville, NY
James T. McCartt
Triangle Peak Partners LP, Knoxville, TN
Linda C. McClain
Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA
Margaret D. McGaughey
U.S. Attorney's Office (Retired), Portland, ME
Theodore A. McKee
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, Philadelphia, PA
Benjamin C. McMurray
Utah Federal Defender Office, Salt Lake City, UT
M. Isabel Medina
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, New Orleans, LA
Marjorie A. Meyers
Federal Public Defender's Office, Southern District of Texas, Houston, TX
S. David Mitchell
University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia, MO
Saira Mohamed
University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA
Erin E. Murphy
New York University School of Law, New York, NY
David Benjamin Oppenheimer
University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA
Vance K. Opperman
Key Investment, Inc., Saint Paul, MN
Aviva A. Orenstein
Indiana University, Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, IN
Wendy L. Patrick
County of San Diego District Attorney's Office, San Diego, CA
Sharon Reich Paulsen
George Washington University, Washington, DC
Mary Margaret Penrose
Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX
Todd Edward Pettys
University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, IA
Kristina Pickering
Supreme Court of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Ellen S. Podgor
Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, FL
Susan Poser
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
Josephine R. Potuto
University of Nebraska College of Law, Lincoln, NE
Margaret Jane Radin
University of Michigan Law School (Retired), Ann Arbor, MI
Theresa J. Pulley Radwan
Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, FL
Bernard D. Reams
St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, TX
Marie T. Reilly
Penn State Law, University Park, PA
Douglas R. Richmond
Lockton Companies, LLC, Olathe, KS
Sarah E. Ricks
Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ
Alice Ristroph
Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY
Augustin Rivera
Del Mar Community College District, Corpus Christi, TX
Jack L. Rives
Alexandria, VA
Ira P. Robbins
American University, Washington College of Law, Bethesda, MD
Charles F. Robinson
Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA
Jacob H. Rooksby
Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, WA
Yaakov Moshe Roth
Jones Day, Washington, DC
Howard Ruda
Hahn & Hessen LLP (Retired), New York, NY
Margaret M. Russell
Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA
Margaret Ann Ryan
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, Washington, DC
Stephen A. Saltzburg
George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC
Karen J. Sarjeant
Legal Services Corporation (Retired), Silver Spring, MD
Suellyn Scarnecchia
University of Michigan Law School (Retired), Ann Arbor, MI
Lynn Hecht Schafran
Legal Momentum, New York, NY
Stephen J. Schulhofer
New York University School of Law, New York, NY
Stewart J. Schwab
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY
Paul M. Secunda
Walcheske & Luzi, LLC, Brookfield, WI
Karl E. Seib
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP (Retired), New York, NY
Colleen F. Shanahan
Columbia Law School, New York, NY
Brian D. Shannon
Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, TX
Katharine B. Silbaugh
Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA
Morris Silberman
Florida Second District Court of Appeal, Tampa, FL
Kenneth W. Simons
University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA
Reagan W. Simpson
Yetter Coleman LLP, Houston, TX
Robert H. Sitkoff
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Paul A. Slager
Slager Madry LLC, Stamford, CT
Melanie Sloan
Summer Strategies, LLC, Washington, DC
Virginia E. Sloan
Chevy Chase, MD
Jonathan M. Smith
Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, Washington, DC
B. Rush Smith
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, Columbia, SC
Bradley Y. Smith
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY
David V. Snyder
American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, DC
Aviam Soifer
University of Hawaii at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, HI
A. Gilchrist Sparks
Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE
Arthur B. Spitzer
American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Jane Stapleton
The University of Sydney Law School, Sydney
H. Mark Stichel
RKW Law Group, Baltimore, MD
Laura Denvir Stith
Supreme Court of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
Kate Stith
Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
Geoffrey R. Stone
University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL
Guy Miller Struve
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (Retired), New York, NY
Paul K. Sun
Ellis & Winters LLP, Raleigh, NC
Jerome T. Tao
Nevada Court of Appeals, Las Vegas, NV
Carolyn Engel Temin
District Attorney's Office, Philadelphia, PA
Debra McCloskey Todd
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA
Bowen H. Tucker
Chicago, IL
Karen Lynn Valihura
Supreme Court of Delaware, Wilmington, DE
Dominick Vetri
University of Oregon School of Law (Retired), Eugene, OR
Michael Vitiello
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA
Evan J. Wallach
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, DC
Lu-in Wang
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA
John L. Warden
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY
Manning Gilbert Warren
University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law, Louisville, KY
Joan Patricia Weber
San Diego Superior Court, San Diego, CA
Merle Weiner
University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR
Steven O. Weise
Proskauer Rose LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Nancy A. Welsh
Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX
James C. Wilson
Vestavia, AL
Ken Wise
Fourteenth Court of Appeals, Houston, TX
Nicholas J. Wittner
Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, MI
Tobias B. Wolff
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Philadelphia, PA
William A. Worthington
Taylor Book Allen & Morris, LLP (Retired), Houston, TX
Shira R. Yoshor
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Philadelphia, PA