Law professor argues against 'affirmative consent' laws

A University of Pennsylvania law professor is arguing that “affirmative consent” or “yes means yes” policies should be used as a rule of personal conduct, but not a standard of liability in sexual assault accusations.

The professor, Paul Robinson, argued in the Chronicle of Higher Education that the debate over affirmative consent policies seems not to lie in the overall morality of the rule, but in using such rules to hold students accountable who don’t adhere to them.