Janet Halley

Professor, Harvard Law School

Overbroad enforcement risks punishing perfectly innocent conduct and squandering the legitimacy and moral force of sexual harassment law as an important social justice tool.

Harvard Law Professors Seek Change In New Sexual Assault Policy

Women’s quest for sexual autonomy is undercut by protectionist images of our sexuality, mandatory reporter requirements, and the newly robust obligation of schools to pursue sexual harassment claims even when the alleged victims don’t want them to.

Harvard's New Sexual Harassment Policy Must Change

Janet Halley: "It is hard to imagine a more counterproductive thing for a sexual harassment policy to do than to make it harder for us to discuss, teach, debate and improve sexual harassment policy – but that is what the university policy threatens to do." (Lisa Poole/ AP)