Student Life, Relationships & the Law: Confronting Domestic Violence in Higher Education, Oct. 10 – 11, at Pepperdine University School of Law

Please join us at the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu on October 10 -11, 2014, for Student Life, Relationships & the Law:  Confronting Domestic Violence in Higher Education, a conference to address domestic violence and intimate partner violence on college campuses.   National leaders from fields across academia will discuss legal, cultural and educational strategies to confront and reduce abuse, coercion, sexual assault and violence among students in dating violence.

You may register and learn more here.  

Colleges and universities face a critical moment of reckoning and response to violence and abuse among students. One-third of college students report having experienced violence and abuse by a dating partner. One quarter of all women in college experience sexual assault, and sixty percent of acquaintance rapes occur in dating relationships. One-third of college students report having physically assaulted a dating partner. The problems and costs of violence and abuse among dating partners are epidemic, but they are preventable. 

Panels will address campus culture, student life, policies and procedures, coordinated campus interventions, Greek and residence life, Title IX and Clery Act compliance, and intersectional dynamics across domestic violence, gender-based crimes and sexual assault. 

These are our speakers and the schedule planned for the conference: 

Friday, October 10

Welcome  – Dean Deanell Reece Tacha and Professor Jeffrey R. Baker

Panel 1: Title IX and Intimate Partner Violence on Campus

Prof. Leigh Goodmark, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, convener

Prof. Nancy Cantalupo, Georgetown University Law Center

Prof. Jill Engle, Penn State University Dickinson School of Law

Nada Moeiny, Pepperdine University,  Office of the General Counsel

Keynote Address: 

Dana Bolger,  Founding Co-Director of Know Your  IX and ED ACT NOW Campain Organizer

Panel 2: Intersectional Perspectives on Sexual and Domestic Violence on Campus

Dr. Alesha Durfee,  Arizona State University School of Social Transformation, convener

Dr. Joanne Belknap , University of Colorado, Institute of Behavioral Science, School of Sociology

Prof. Deborah Weissman, University of North Carolina School of Law

Jasmine Lester, Founder and Director, Sun Devils Against Sexual Assault

Saturday, October 11

Panel 3: Clery Act Compliance and Effects on Domestic Violence

 Prof. Margaret Drew, University of Massachusetts School of Law, convener

 Lamea Shaaban-Magana, University of Alabama, Women’s Resource Center

 Kathleen Echols, University of Alabama, Women’s Resource Center

 Allison Dearing, Campus Violence Prevention and Response Coordinator,  Crisis Center, Inc., serving University of Alabama – Birmingham, Miles College, Birmingham-Southern College and Samford University

Panel 4: Campus Culture and Coordinated Institutional Responses to Domestic  Violence

Prof. Tanya Cooper, University of Alabama School of Law, convener

Prof. Kelly Behre, University of California, Davis, School of Law                  

Prof. Yoli Redero, Vanderbilt University Law School

Alison Tartaglia, West Virginia University, The Students’ Center of Health