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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|08|13}}
| alma_mater = [[Boston College]]
| occupation = Lawyer
| known_for = Handling legal cases related to [[child abuse]] and [[sex crime]]
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'''Wendy Murphy''' (born August 13, 1961)<ref>{{cite tweet|number=499688591942234112|user=stevekerrigan|title=Had a great time on Broadside @NECN with Wendy Murphy - especially on her birthday! #mapoli #malg|date=13 August 2014}}</ref> is a lawyer specializing in child abuse and interpersonal violence.<ref name="NELaw">{{cite web |title=New England Law bio |url=https://student.nesl.edu/HistoryProject/personalities/1969-murphy.html |access-date=26 January 2019}}</ref>
'''Wendy Murphy''' (born August 13, 1961)<ref>{{cite tweet|number=499688591942234112|user=stevekerrigan|title=Had a great time on Broadside @NECN with Wendy Murphy - especially on her birthday! #mapoli #malg|date=13 August 2014}}</ref> is a lawyer specializing in [[child abuse]] and [[Violence|interpersonal violence]].<ref name="NELaw">{{cite web |title=New England Law bio |url=https://student.nesl.edu/HistoryProject/personalities/1969-murphy.html |access-date=26 January 2019}}</ref>


==Education==
==Education==
Murphy received a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] from [[Boston College]] in 1983,<ref>{{cite magazine |date=Fall 2008 |title=Alumni News: Alumni Help Students Begin Their Career Journey |magazine=Boston College Magazine |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Boston College |page=1 |via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> and a [[Juris Doctor]] from [[New England Law Boston]] in 1987.<ref name="Takethelead">{{cite web |last1=Weldon |first1=Michelle |title=Entitled To Equality: Lawyer Works Fiercely For Legal Protections For Women |url=https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/blog/entitled-to-equality-lawyer-works-fiercely-for-legal-protections-for-women/ |website=The Movement Blog |access-date=26 January 2019}}</ref>
Murphy received a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] from [[Boston College]] in 1983<ref>{{cite magazine |date=Fall 2008 |title=Alumni News: Alumni Help Students Begin Their Career Journey |magazine=Boston College Magazine |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Boston College |page=1 |via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref> and became a [[Juris Doctor]] from [[New England Law Boston]] in 1987.<ref name="Takethelead">{{cite web |last1=Weldon |first1=Michelle |title=Entitled To Equality: Lawyer Works Fiercely For Legal Protections For Women |url=https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/blog/entitled-to-equality-lawyer-works-fiercely-for-legal-protections-for-women/ |website=The Movement Blog |access-date=26 January 2019}}</ref>


==Career ==
==Career ==
She “began her career as a prosecutor in [[Middlesex County, Massachusetts|Middlesex County]], handling child abuse and sex crime cases, and then moved into private practice, focusing on violence against women and children.”<ref name="NELaw"/> Murphy is an adjunct professor of sexual violence law at [[New England Law Boston]].<ref name="Ownsite">{{cite web |title=Wendy Murphy |url=http://www.wendymurphylaw.com/ |access-date=26 January 2019}}</ref> Murphy was a Visiting Scholar at [[Harvard Law School]] from 2002 to 2003. Earlier, she taught “Reproductive Rights and Technologies” at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]].<ref name="About">{{cite web |title=About Wendy Murphy |url=http://www.wendymurphylaw.com/about/ |access-date=26 January 2019}}</ref> She is the founder and director of the Victim Advocacy & Research Group which is a volunteer legal advocacy organization that, since 1992, has provided free legal services to victims in the criminal justice system.<ref name="About"/>
Murphy began her career as a prosecutor in [[Middlesex County, Massachusetts|Middlesex County]], handling legal cases related to child abuse and sex crime. Then, she switched to her private practice to focus on violence against women and children.<ref name="NELaw"/> Murphy is an adjunct professor of sexual violence law at [[New England Law Boston]].<ref name="Ownsite">{{cite web |title=Wendy Murphy |url=http://www.wendymurphylaw.com/ |url-status=dead |access-date=26 January 2019 |archive-date=27 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127035034/http://www.wendymurphylaw.com/ }}</ref> Murphy was a visiting scholar at [[Harvard Law School]] from 2002 to 2003. Earlier, she taught ''Reproductive Rights and Technologies'' at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]].<ref name="About">{{cite web |title=About Wendy Murphy |url=http://www.wendymurphylaw.com/about/ |access-date=26 January 2019}}</ref> She is the founder and director of the Victim Advocacy & Research Group, which is a volunteer legal advocacy organization that, since 1992, has provided free legal services to victims in the criminal justice system.<ref name="About"/>


She successfully sued both [[Princeton University]] and [[Harvard Law School]] for violating Title IX regulations “by mishandling sexual assault complaints.”<ref name="Jacobs">{{cite news |last1=Jacobs |first1=Peter |title=This Law Professor Is Taking On The Ivy League To Change The Way Elite Colleges Handle Sexual Assault |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/why-wendy-murphy-is-going-after-princeton-and-harvard-2015-1 |access-date=26 January 2019 |publisher=Business Insider |date=January 8, 2015}}</ref>
She successfully sued both [[Princeton University]] and [[Harvard Law School]] for violating Title IX regulations “by mishandling [[sexual assault]] complaints.”<ref name="Jacobs">{{cite news |last1=Jacobs |first1=Peter |title=This Law Professor Is Taking On The Ivy League To Change The Way Elite Colleges Handle Sexual Assault |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/why-wendy-murphy-is-going-after-princeton-and-harvard-2015-1 |access-date=26 January 2019 |publisher=Business Insider |date=January 8, 2015}}</ref>


Of the case against Harvard Law School, she writes <blockquote>“The case began when Harvard Law School hired me as a consultant in early 2010, in connection with a Title IX matter. When I pointed out to Harvard officials that their policies were noncompliant, and they refused to fix them, I filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights in which I identified numerous substantive and procedural violations of Title IX that were then in place in the law school’s policy.”</blockquote><ref>{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Wendy |title=Win in Harvard Case Will Ripple Across Campuses |url=https://womensenews.org/2015/01/win-in-harvard-case-will-ripple-across-campuses/ |access-date=30 January 2019 |publisher=Women’s eNews |date=January 13, 2015 |ref=women}}</ref>
Of the case against Harvard Law School, she writes: <blockquote>“The case began when Harvard Law School hired me as a consultant in early 2010, in connection with a Title IX matter. When I pointed out to Harvard officials that their policies were noncompliant, and they refused to fix them, I filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights in which I identified numerous substantive and procedural violations of Title IX that were then in place in the law school’s policy.”<ref>{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Wendy |date=January 13, 2015 |title=Win in Harvard Case Will Ripple Across Campuses |publisher=Women’s eNews |url=https://womensenews.org/2015/01/win-in-harvard-case-will-ripple-across-campuses/ |access-date=30 January 2019 |ref=women}}</ref></blockquote>With co-counsel John Williams, she sued [[Yale University]] on behalf of Susan Daria Landino (formerly Burhans). This was another Title IX case and the first Jackson v Birmingham case filed by a higher education administrator rather than a sports coach.<ref name="Yale">{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=KC |author-link=KC Johnson |title=Yale's New Low and the Sad Saga of Wendy Murphy |url=https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2012/10/19/yales_new_low_and_the_sad_saga |access-date=26 January 2019 |publisher=Minding the Campus |date=October 19, 2013}}</ref>


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When serial child rapist Wayne Chapman was to be released from jail, she represented his victims to keep him in jail.<ref name="WGBH">{{cite news |title=Wayne Chapman Victim And Attorney On Convicted Child Rapist's Potential Release |url=https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2018/06/14/wayne-chapman-victim-and-attorney-on-convicted-child-rapists-potential-release |access-date=26 January 2019 |publisher=WGBH |date=June 14, 2018}}</ref> She filed an appeal with the [[Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court|Supreme Judicial Court]] asking for an emergency injunction preventing his release.<ref name="Jill">{{cite news |last1=Harmacinski |first1=Jill |title=Attorney not done fighting child rapist's release |url=https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/attorney-not-done-fighting-child-rapist-s-release/article_af08ef07-c345-536d-abc8-84ff14ec3413.html |access-date=26 January 2019 |publisher=The Daily News |date=June 5, 2018}}</ref>
With co-counsel John Williams, she sued [[Yale University]] on behalf of Susan Daria Landino (formerly Burhans). This was another Title IX case and the first Jackson v Birmingham case filed by a higher education administrator rather than a sports coach.<ref name="Yale">{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=KC |author-link=KC Johnson |title=Yale's New Low and the Sad Saga of Wendy Murphy |url=https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2012/10/19/yales_new_low_and_the_sad_saga |access-date=26 January 2019 |publisher=Minding the Campus |date=October 19, 2013}}</ref>


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According to author [[Stuart Taylor Jr.|Stuart Taylor, Jr.]], she is also a supporter of the "[[Presumption of guilt|guilty-until-proven-innocent]]" principle in the American judicial system. She was quoted as saying, "I'm really tired of people suggesting that you're somehow un-American if you don't respect the presumption of innocence because you know what that sounds like to a victim? Presumption: You're a liar."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Until proven innocent : political correctness and the shameful injustices of the Duke lacrosse rape case|author=Taylor, Stuart Jr. |date=2008|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin|others=Johnson, Robert David, 1967-|isbn=978-0312384869|edition= 1st St. Martin's Griffin |location=New York|oclc=213300793}}</ref>
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When serial child rapist Wayne Chapman was to be released from jail, she represented his victims to keep him in jail.<ref name="WGBH">{{cite news |title=Wayne Chapman Victim And Attorney On Convicted Child Rapist's Potential Release |url=https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2018/06/14/wayne-chapman-victim-and-attorney-on-convicted-child-rapists-potential-release |access-date=26 January 2019 |publisher=WGBH |date=June 14, 2018}}</ref> She filed an appeal with the Supreme Judicial Court asking for an emergency injunction preventing his release.<ref name="Jill">{{cite news |last1=Harmacinski |first1=Jill |title=Attorney not done fighting child rapist's release |url=https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/attorney-not-done-fighting-child-rapist-s-release/article_af08ef07-c345-536d-abc8-84ff14ec3413.html |access-date=26 January 2019 |publisher=The Daily News |date=June 5, 2018}}</ref>

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According to author Stuart Taylor, Jr., she is also a supporter of "guilty-until-proven-innocent" in the American Judicial system. She was quoted as saying, "I'm really tired of people suggesting that you're somehow un-American if you don't respect the presumption of innocence because you know what that sounds like to a victim?  Presumption: You're a liar."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Until proven innocent : political correctness and the shameful injustices of the Duke lacrosse rape case|last=Taylor, Stuart, Jr., 1948-|date=2008|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin|others=Johnson, Robert David, 1967-|isbn=978-0312384869|edition= 1st St. Martin's Griffin |location=New York|oclc=213300793}}</ref>


==Publications==
==Publications==
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Wendy Murphy
Born (1961-08-13) August 13, 1961 (age 63)
Alma materBoston College
OccupationLawyer
Known forHandling legal cases related to child abuse and sex crime

Wendy Murphy (born August 13, 1961)[1] is a lawyer specializing in child abuse and interpersonal violence.[2]

Education

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Murphy received a BA from Boston College in 1983[3] and became a Juris Doctor from New England Law Boston in 1987.[4]

Career

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Murphy began her career as a prosecutor in Middlesex County, handling legal cases related to child abuse and sex crime. Then, she switched to her private practice to focus on violence against women and children.[2] Murphy is an adjunct professor of sexual violence law at New England Law Boston.[5] Murphy was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School from 2002 to 2003. Earlier, she taught Reproductive Rights and Technologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6] She is the founder and director of the Victim Advocacy & Research Group, which is a volunteer legal advocacy organization that, since 1992, has provided free legal services to victims in the criminal justice system.[6]

She successfully sued both Princeton University and Harvard Law School for violating Title IX regulations “by mishandling sexual assault complaints.”[7]

Of the case against Harvard Law School, she writes:

“The case began when Harvard Law School hired me as a consultant in early 2010, in connection with a Title IX matter. When I pointed out to Harvard officials that their policies were noncompliant, and they refused to fix them, I filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights in which I identified numerous substantive and procedural violations of Title IX that were then in place in the law school’s policy.”[8]

With co-counsel John Williams, she sued Yale University on behalf of Susan Daria Landino (formerly Burhans). This was another Title IX case and the first Jackson v Birmingham case filed by a higher education administrator rather than a sports coach.[9]

When serial child rapist Wayne Chapman was to be released from jail, she represented his victims to keep him in jail.[10] She filed an appeal with the Supreme Judicial Court asking for an emergency injunction preventing his release.[11]

According to author Stuart Taylor, Jr., she is also a supporter of the "guilty-until-proven-innocent" principle in the American judicial system. She was quoted as saying, "I'm really tired of people suggesting that you're somehow un-American if you don't respect the presumption of innocence because you know what that sounds like to a victim? Presumption: You're a liar."[12]

Publications

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  • And Justice For Some: An Exposé of the Lawyers and Judges who Let Dangerous Criminals Go Free. (published by Penguin/Sentinel in September 2007; updated and re-released in paperback in 2014)
  • How Title IX Won its Rightful Seat at the Civil Rights Table of Justice, and Why the Legs Are Still so Wobbly,
  • Effective Gender Activism: An Exercise in Marginalization, in Martin, J.L. (Ed.), Racial Battle Fatigue: Insights from the Front Lines of Social Justice Advocacy, (pp. 191–208). (Santa Barbara, CA Praeger 2015)
  • Traumatized Children who Participate in Legal Proceedings are Entitled to Testimonial and Participatory Accommodations Under the Americans With Disabilities Act, 19 Roger Williams Law Review 361 (2014)
  • Book Review: Addressing Rape Reform in Law and Practice (Caringella), Sexual Assault Report, Civic Research Institute, pp. 67–68 (May/June 2013)
  • Bullying and Harassment in Schools: Analysis of Legislation and Policy, in M.A. Paludi (Ed.), Women and Management, Global Issues and Promising Solutions, volume 2: Signs of Solutions (pp. 29–51). (Santa Barbara, CA Praeger 2013)
  • Unpacking the Rights of Third Parties in Criminal Cases, Family and Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly, 5, No. 1, (Summer 2012)
  • Sexual Harassment and Title IX: What's Bullying Got To Do With It, New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement, 37, 305-324 (2011)
  • Privacy Rights in Mental Health Counseling: Constitutional Confusion and the Voicelessness of Third Parties in Criminal Cases, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, 39: 387-395 (2011)
  • Using Title IX's “Prompt and Equitable” Hearing Requirements to Force Schools to Provide Fair Judicial Proceedings to Redress Sexual Assault on Campus, 40 New England Law Review, No. 4, pp. 1007–1022 (2006)
  • “Federalizing” Victims’ Rights to Hold State Courts Accountable, 9 Lewis & Clark L.Rev. 647 (2005)
  • The Overlapping Problems of Prosecution Sample Bias and Systematic Exclusion of Familial Child Sex Abuse Victims from the Criminal Justice System, Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, pp. 129–132 (2004)
  • New Strategies for Child Abuse Prosecutions After Crawford, ABA Journal, vol. 23, #8, pp. 129–133 (2004)
  • The Victim Advocacy and Research Group: Serving a Growing Need to Provide Rape Victims with Personal Legal Representation to Protect Privacy Rights and Fight Gender Bias in the Criminal Justice System, 11 Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, No.1, p. 123 (2001)
  • Special Problems Regarding the Discovery and Use of Privileged Information, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Superior Court Criminal Practice Manual, Spring, (1999 and update 2003)
  • Minimizing the Likelihood of Discovery of Victims’ Counseling Records and Other Personal Information in Criminal Cases: Massachusetts Give a Nod to a Constitutional Right to Confidentiality, 32 New England Law Review, No. 4, Summer (1998) (recognized in “Worth Reading,” National Law Journal)
  • Gender Bias in the Criminal Justice System, Harvard Women's Law Journal; 20th Anniversary Edition, June (1997)
  • Legal Rights of Trauma Victims, in “Trauma and Memory: Clinical and Legal Controversies,” Oxford University Press, (1997)
  • Debunking “False Memory” Myths in Sexual Abuse Cases, Trial, Journal of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, (November 1997)

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References

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  1. ^ @stevekerrigan (13 August 2014). "Had a great time on Broadside @NECN with Wendy Murphy - especially on her birthday! #mapoli #malg" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ a b "New England Law bio". Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Alumni News: Alumni Help Students Begin Their Career Journey". Boston College Magazine. Boston, MA: Boston College. Fall 2008. p. 1 – via Archive.org.
  4. ^ Weldon, Michelle. "Entitled To Equality: Lawyer Works Fiercely For Legal Protections For Women". The Movement Blog. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Wendy Murphy". Archived from the original on 27 January 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  6. ^ a b "About Wendy Murphy". Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  7. ^ Jacobs, Peter (January 8, 2015). "This Law Professor Is Taking On The Ivy League To Change The Way Elite Colleges Handle Sexual Assault". Business Insider. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  8. ^ Murphy, Wendy (January 13, 2015). "Win in Harvard Case Will Ripple Across Campuses". Women’s eNews. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  9. ^ Johnson, KC (October 19, 2013). "Yale's New Low and the Sad Saga of Wendy Murphy". Minding the Campus. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  10. ^ "Wayne Chapman Victim And Attorney On Convicted Child Rapist's Potential Release". WGBH. June 14, 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  11. ^ Harmacinski, Jill (June 5, 2018). "Attorney not done fighting child rapist's release". The Daily News. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  12. ^ Taylor, Stuart Jr. (2008). Until proven innocent : political correctness and the shameful injustices of the Duke lacrosse rape case. Johnson, Robert David, 1967- (1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.). New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-0312384869. OCLC 213300793.
  13. ^ "Books & Publications". Wendy Murphy. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
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