In the past several years, many courts have decided in favor of accused students and against universities in lawsuits claiming that the schools' adjudication processes lacked basic components of fairness.
Take courtrooms, and their proxies -- media, school rape adjudication boards and public judgment.
Sulkowicz's alleged assailant was found "not responsible" by the school's adjudication process, as well as in two separate cases involving other students.
Sulkowicz' alleged assailant was found "not responsible" by the school's adjudication process, as well as in two separate cases involving other students.
The bill will also require that schools disclose adjudication outcomes for sexual assault offenses.
Since the university has only expelled one student for sexual assault in school history, basing an adjudication on precedent is bad policy, said Stanford law professor Michele Landis Dauber, former co-chair of the Board on Judicial Affairs overseeing campus adjudications.
Requiring a student to report an attack to police in order to receive a service from their school -- such as an adjudication of the accused offender -- is "diametrically opposed" to victims' rights under the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act (Campus SaVE), Carter said. .
Though there is federal guidance recommending standards for adjudication and staffing, schools are free to decide how to investigate and punish sexual assault.
The federal investigation pointed to a number of concerns involving the adjudication process, such as the school putting too much emphasis on accused students and complainants to identify evidence and witnesses, rather than the university process performing those functions.
The roommate told HuffPost that the school did not tell him at the time that pursuing adjudication was an option.
