LLM Title IX

This course focuses on one of the most important laws impacting American educational institutions, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. We will start with a brief discussion of the history of higher education law generally, including the deference courts routinely showed to colleges and universities and how that has changed over the years. We will then shift our attention to the passage of Title IX and how that law applies in three contexts: academic employment, school-based athletics, and student affairs. We will also focus on the primary contemporary legal issues colleges and universities are dealing with, including sexual misconduct and the treatment of transgender students.