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95 B.U. L. Rev. 1049 (2015)
Reactive to Proactive: Title IX's Unrealized Capacity to Prevent Campus Sexual Assault

handle is hein.journals/bulr95 and id is 1071 raw text is: REACTIVE TO PROACTIVE: TITLE IX'S UNREALIZED CAPACITY TO PREVENT CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT KATHARINE SILBAUGH* INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 1049 I. TITLE VII TO TITLE IX: THE DOCTRINAL DEBT TO THE CIVIL R IGH TS A CT ....................................................................................... 1052 A. Sex in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 .......................... 1052 B. Sex in Title IX of the Higher Education Act .............................. 1053 C. Sexual Imposition as Sex Discrimination Under Title V1 and Title IX ................................................................................ 1053 II. THE DOCTRINAL BASIS FOR THE POST-ASSAULT FOCUS .................. 1055 A. Implicating the Employer: From Personal to Institutional M isconduct ................................................................................ 1056 B. Translation of the Agency Principle to Title IX ......................... 1058 III. THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION INTERVENTIONS ......................... 1062 IV. IS THE LEGAL EQUIVALENCE BETWEEN WORKPLACES AND COLLEGES SOUND? ........................................................................... 1067 V. PUBLIC HEALTH VERSUS INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY APPROACHES TO SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION ............................. 1068 A. What Are the Public Health Interventions Available to C olleges? ................................................................................... 1068 B. What Are the Competencies of a Residential College? ............. 1072 VI. CAN TITLE IX Do THIS W ORK? ........................................................ 1073 INTRODUCTION This article examines the efforts to use Title IX to address the problem of sexual assaults on college campuses. It seeks to explain an odd phenomenon: universities seem to put more resources into addressing assaults that have already occurred than they do into preventing sexual assaults from occurring. To better understand how universities implicitly frame their options for addressing sexual assault, I'm going to posit that there are two particularly prevalent analytic approaches to sexual assault prevention. I'm going to call one the law enforcement approach and the other the public health approach. I'm going to link the law enforcement approach to the analytical framework * Professor of Law and Law Alumni Scholar, Boston University School of Law. I would like to thank Lauren Bentlage and Meghan O'Malley for helpful research assistance, and the participants in the Civil Rights Act at 50: Past, Present, and Future Symposium at Boston University School of Law for helpful feedback. 1049

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