Harvard Law profs challenge federal sex-assault ‘guidance’

CAMBRIDGE – A collection of prominent law school professors, including Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, shot back at President Barack Obama's Education Department over its practice of using "Dear Colleague" letters to lay down policy mandates that ride roughshod over Americans' constitutional rights. A letter from the educators dated Monday asserts that the department's civil rights office "has unlawfully expanded the nature and scope of institutions' responsibility to address sexual harassment" thro

CAMBRIDGE – A collection of prominent law school professors, including Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, shot back at President Barack Obama's Education Department over its practice of using "Dear Colleague" letters to lay down policy mandates that ride roughshod over Americans' constitutional rights. A letter from the educators dated Monday asserts that the department's civil rights office "has unlawfully expanded the nature and scope of institutions' responsibility to address sexual harassment" thro…