Dr. Kathleen Conn, PhD, JD, LLM, of counsel to KingSpry, presented a session at the Education Law Association’s 60th Annual Conference in San Diego on November 15. The title of her session was “Preponderance of the Evidence Standard: Is OCR Overstepping Its Authority?”
The talk examined the new provisions of Section 304 of the Violence Against Women Act regarding the standard of proof to be used in campus disciplinary proceedings dealing with sexual violence.
Her paper from the conference will appear in West’s Education Law Reporter in January 2015.