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2017 BYU Educ. & L.J. 1 (2017)
Addressing Conflicts of Interest in the Context of Campus Sexual Violence

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  ADDRESSING CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN
       THE CONTEXT OF CAMPUS SEXUAL
                         VIOLENCE

    Talcott J. Franklin*, Dennis  C. Taylor*  & Ann  Beytagh*

                        I.     INTRODUCTION

    Sexual  violence on  college campuses   has become   a topic of
increasing  concern and  growing  frustration. The  reported  scope
of  the  problem and its life-shattering consequences are
staggering. According  to President  Obama:
    An estimated one  in five women has been  sexually assaulted
    during her college years - one in five. Of those assaults, only
    12 percent are reported, and of those reported assaults, only a
    fraction of the offenders  are punished.  And   while these
    assaults overwhelmingly  happen   to women,  we  know  that
    men  are assaulted, too....
    For anybody  whose  once-normal, everyday life was suddenly
    shattered by an act of sexual violence, the trauma, the terror
    can shadow  you long after one horrible attack. It lingers when
    you don't know where  to go or who to turn to. It's there when
    you're forced to sit in the same class or stay in the same dorm
    with  the person  who  raped  you;  when   people are  more
    suspicious of what  you  were  wearing  or  what  you  were
    drinking, as if it's your fault, not the fault of the person who


*Talcott J. Franklin is a graduate of the University of Washington and the Washington
& Lee University School of Law. He is a principal with the law firm of Talcott Franklin
P.C. and the author or co-author of four legal treatises including the forthcoming
School Sexual Assault Policy Handbook (Penobscot 2015).
*Dennis C. Taylor is a graduate of Marshall University and the Washington & Lee
University School of Law. He currently practices law with the law firm of Talcott
Franklin P.C., performs higher education consulting work through DCT Advisors LLC,
and serves as an adjunct professor at Marshall University. He previously served as
Vice Chancellor for Administration for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy
Commission.
*Ann Beytagh is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Houston
School of Law. She currently practices law with the law firm of Talcott Franklin P.C.
and  previously served as Associate University Counsel at Southern Methodist
University.


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