Corcos on Growing Up With Popular Culture in the Time of Title IX @LpcProf @lalawreview @LSULawCenter

Christine A. Corcos, LSU Law Center, has published Growing Up With Popular Culture In the Time of Title IX at 83 Louisiana Law Review 60 (2022). Here is the abstract.

Generally, while popular culture has reflected Title IX’s existence since its enactment, characters who discuss the impact of the law rarely mention the actual statute. Instead, they discuss its impact and its effects. The writers of these episodes and films might believe that the public cannot understand Title IX’s sophistication, but that might well not be the case. Nevertheless, what the writers do is clear away what they might think is unnecessary information—the name of the statute, the rulings, the procedures—and concentrate on the issues and the effects: the reasons that Title IX exists, the reasons that Congress enacted it, and the conflicts that endure. These issues include peer-on-peer sexual harassment and peer-to-peer bullying, supervisor harassment, inappropriate sexual relationships, and sexual assault. The other information that writers omit is in reference to other statutes and legal theories that might also support harassment or bullying claims.

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