Students demand law profs. eliminate traumatic, 'triggering' rape law lessons

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'Law school students are demanding professors eliminate rape law from the curriculum because it’s too traumatic, according to one Harvard Law professor.

Professor Jeannie Suk penned an op-ed in The New Yorker decrying students’ hesitancy to approach the subject, defending the nature of the topic and why it is so important to educate America’s next generation of lawyers on how to address sexual violence in the courtroom.

“[M]y experience at Harvard over the past couple of years tells me that the environment for teaching rape law and other subjects involving gender and violence is changing,” Suk wrote. “Students seem more anxious about classroom discussion, and about approaching the law of sexual violence in particular, than they have ever been in my eight years as a law professor.

“Student organizations representing women’s interests now routinely advise students that they should not feel pressured to attend or participate in class sessions that focus on the law of sexual violence, and which might therefore be traumatic.”

Suk says that these same interest groups encourage professors to warn students that the rape law unit “might ‘trigger’ traumatic memories.” Students have also requested that any questions relating to rape law on exams be removed so as to not negatively affect their performance. One professor Suk knows was allegedly asked by a student to “not use the word ‘violate’ in class class—as in ‘Does this conduct violate the law?’—because the word was triggering.”'