Nancy Chi Cantalupo joins California Western School of Law after teaching as full-time faculty, adjunct faculty,
or a fellow at Barry University School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, George Washington University Law
School, and Temple University Beasley School of law. She has also practiced with the firm of Drinker Biddle &
Reath LLP and served as Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs at Georgetown Law, as well as Associate Vice President
for Equity, Inclusion & Violence Prevention at a higher education professional association and as a Research
Fellow with the Victim Rights Law Center.
Professor Cantalupo is a nationally-recognized scholar and expert on Title IX, sexual harassment, and gender-based
violence in education. Her scholarship draws from her 25 years of anti-campus sexual harassment and gender-based
violence work as a researcher, campus administrator, victims’ advocate, attorney, and policymaker and focuses
on the use of law to combat discriminatory violence, particularly gender-based violence. Professor
Cantalupo’s articles have appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law &
Gender, Wake Forest Law
Review, UC Davis Law
Review, California Law
Review Online, Yale Law
Journal Forum, Utah Law
Review, Maryland Law
Review, the peer-reviewed social science journal Trauma, Violence & Abuse, Loyola University Chicago Law
Journal, and several
issues of the Journal of College
& University Law. She also has been invited to write several book chapters, as well as op-eds
for the Washington
Post, New
York Times,
USA
Today, and Time magazine.
In her pro bono work, Professor Cantalupo has consulted with President Obama’s White House Task Force to
Protect Students from Sexual Assault, participated on a U.S.
Senate roundtable, served as a Negotiator on the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee that amended regulations
for the Clery Act, and testified before the Maryland and Virginia state legislatures. She has also chaired the
board of D.C. Law Students in Court and served on the Advisory Boards for SurvJustice and The Clery Center for
Security on Campus, as well as on the Boards of Directors for the Asian/Pacific-Islander Domestic Violence Resource
Project and the Conference for Asian Pacific American Law Faculty. Most recently, she co-authored “Title
IX & the Preponderance of the Evidence: A White Paper,” signed by over 115 law professors from
across the country and was asked by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence
to write Recommendations
for Improving Campus Student Conduct Processes for Gender-Based Violence.