Open AccessSexual Assault on Campus
Author(s) -
Clare Foran
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
university of queensland law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1839-289X
pISSN - 0083-4041
DOI - 10.38127/uqlj.v40i1.5641
Subject(s) - sexual assault , jurisdiction , project commissioning , obligation , publishing , action (physics) , law , criminology , moral obligation , sociology , discipline , political science , poison control , suicide prevention , medicine , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics
This article examines the case of Y v University of Queensland and the issue of university disciplinary action in cases of student-on-student sexual assault. In addition to the question of whether universities have legal jurisdiction to decide these matters, there is the more fundamental question of whether they should. Using Martha Fineman’s theory of vulnerability as a theoretical lens, this article seeks to evaluate whether accusations of sexual assault should be treated exclusively as police matters or whether universities have a moral obligation to take independent action.