The Shameful Star Chamber Targeting a University Student

People study on campus at the University of Technology Sydney, in Australia, on April 6, 2016. Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

Commentary

In a recent judgement about a sexual misconduct case at Cornell University in New York, the judge compared the campus disciplinary committees to the infamous English Star Chambers (pdf). He warned that “these threats to due process and academic freedom are matters of life and death for our great universities.”