The Department of Education has issued a final rule on Title IX and sexual harassment, the first comprehensive regulations issued under Title IX since 1975. As expected, the final rule addresses many of the topics previewed in the Department’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), though there are instances where the final rule has been modified in ways that will be of interest to college and university counsel and administrators as they plan for implementation.

Candice Jackson, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Education, has agreed to join us for a two-hour, recorded briefing to apprise members of the content of the final rule. She was directly involved with reviewing the 124,000 public comments and drafting the final regulations, and will describe key features of the regulations and flag areas where they depart from the previewed content in the NPRM. Deputy Chief of Staff and Deputy General Counsel Jackson will describe the Department’s process in development of the regulations, highlighting content from the extensive preamble that may assist college and university counsel, as well as campus administrators, as they endeavor to implement the final regulations by the implementation date of August 14, 2020.