Pritika Patel - Women's Rights Data Initiative

Title IX: What your college owes you after sexual assault

The allegations of a gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity house have raised a question many students never ask until they need the answer: What is my college required …

When an abuser has a gun: How much protection does a state provide?

Federal law prohibits domestic abusers from possessing firearms, but that prohibition is only as strong as the mechanism a state builds around it. Nationally, gun possession is banned for people …

Three tracks to college sexual assault justice: Campus, Criminal, and Civil

The recent civil lawsuit filed by a former Cornell student alleging sexual assault demonstrates that survivors of campus sexual assault have three paths to justice. Our explainer breaks down how …

Pritika Patel is a Georgetown University student and editor for The Hoya and Georgetown’s Undergraduate Law Review. Her editorial and legal interests include education policy, Title IX, and family law. She is a reporting intern for WRDI.