Stone to Advise Director of National Intelligence
Professor Geoffrey R. Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, has been appointed a member of the Senior Advisory Group to the Director of National Intelligence and, separately, has agreed to advise the White House on issues relating to campus sexual assaults.
Stone, a leading constitutional law scholar who advised President Obama in the wake of the Edward J. Snowden leak in 2013, will help provide “external perspectives on policy, leadership, technology breakthroughs, and best-in-class solutions relevant to current intelligence issues” to the Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper, through the end of his term in January 2017. The group is chaired by a former CEO of Lockheed Martin.
Stone will also advise the White House on issues relating to campus sexual assaults in a meeting on Jan. 23. Sexual violence on college campuses has been the subject of recent debate over how to best protect student victims while still providing fair hearings for the accused. The U.S. Department of Education is investigating more than 90 college for sexual assault violations.
In December, The U.S Department of Education announced that Harvard Law School had violated Title IX, a federal law that bars gender discrimination at schools receiving federal funding, prompting Harvard to change its rules for investigating sexual assaults. A letter from 28 Harvard law professors criticized the new procedures for lacking the basic elements of fairness and due process protections.