In 1998, attorney C.L. Lindsay III left his practice in New York City to found the Coalition for Student & Academic Rights (CO-STAR). Since then, acting as its Executive Director, he has built CO-STAR into a national student rights organization that helps thousands of college students with their legal problems, free-of-charge, each year. C.L. is a nationally recognized expert and leader in the field of student rights and academic freedom. His syndicated column, "Ask CO-STAR " is distributed nationwide on Knight Ridder/Tribune's College Wire Service. The column, published weekly, has become one of Knight Ridder/Tribune's most popul...
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C.L. Lindsey
Attorney, Author and Student Advocate. Sexual Assault and the Law, Dangers of Social Media, Alcohol on Campus, Plagiarism, Cyber Bullying, Online Stalking and More
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In 1998, attorney C.L. Lindsay III left his practice in New York City to found the Coalition for Student & Academic Rights (CO-STAR). Since then, acting as its Executive Director, he has built CO-STAR into a national student rights organization that helps thousands of college students with their legal problems, free-of-charge, each year.
C.L. is a nationally recognized expert and leader in the field of student rights and academic freedom. His syndicated column, “Ask CO-STAR ” is distributed nationwide on Knight Ridder/Tribune’s College Wire Service. The column, published weekly, has become one of Knight Ridder/Tribune’s most popular features.
He is also the author of The College Student’s Guide to the Law: Get a Grade Changed, Keep Your Stuff Private, Throw a Police-Free Party, and More! published in August 2005 by Taylor Trade Publishing.
He has appeared on national television, radio and has been featured in countless regional and national publications, including US News & World Reports, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, New York Daily News, Newsday, CBS News Radio, Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane (NPR), The Sally Jesse Raphael Show, College Bound Teen, and The Christian Science Monitor.
He graduated magna cum laude from Denison University, and received his J.D. from the University of Michigan. In his spare time, he teaches courses in Law and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
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CL did an amazing job! Our students really enjoyed his presentation and we heard great feedback. He definitely presented what I thought was the best educational presentation I have seen so far!” – Ashford University “WSU-Rochester really enjoyed CL Lindsay last week. He was informative and funny on all topics. He brought up serious issues in a way that students felt engaged to ask questions. We would love to have him back again. From a process stand point, he was really easy to accommodate, probably the most simple requests we have had. He was a pleasure to work with and we could not be happier.
C.L., we have had excellent feedback about your visit last week and hope to have you join us again in the future. Students and faculty/staff are still quoting you! Thanks for your flexibility and engaging program.
I would first like to begin by thanking you for coming out last year to our 2010-2011 ICCSAA Conference. C.L Lindsay was a huge hit with our students. In fact, because of him we were able to find the site that sells date rape drug testers and were able to prevent them from being handed out to our students before Spring Break. Many of our students were really appreciative and it helped prevent one of our students from becoming a victim of date rape. Thank you to your agency and C.L. Lindsay for being amazing and providing us with the tools to help keep our students safe.
The parents absolutely loved CL’s presentation. They were riveted the whole time and were very happy to hear that CL would be sharing similar information with their son or daughter. CL was engaging, informative, comfortable and helped us to ensure that Wheelock parents understand the dangers that can happen electronically. Excellent performance both times! I look forward to having CL back here in September.
Thanks for a great presentation at Fort Lewis College last night. It got across much needed information that all students should know in a humorous way that also kept them very engaged in the real message of the topic. Knowing their rights and responsibilities in the eyes of the law is the first best step to making good decisions.
We were blown away by Monday’s program. Thank you so much for coming and for doing what you do. We hope you will return!
I wanted to let you know that C.L. Lindsay was so great! His show was very interesting and informative and he was just about the nicest guy! He was genuinely listening when students were talking to him before and after and he made everyone feel really comfortable. Thanks again for recommending him at NACA. You guys are the best!
The C.L. Lindsay program was a HUGE success!! We had about 1000 students in attendance and they really seemed to enjoy the presentation. And C.L. is a great guy… it was wonderful having him on campus for the day. He even went to my legal issues class! Thanks again for everything… we could not have hoped for things to work out better!! And if any schools are ever looking for recommendations about C.L. please send them my way!!
I saw many of the students that were [at the program], and they said that it was one of the best lectures they have seen since coming to campus. Good luck to you! Hopefully we will see you next year for another lecture.
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Topics
ALCOHOL AND PARTIES
Make sure any party your students, or troops, throw is as safe and legal as possible. After the lecture attendees will:
Be able to take specific steps to ensure that guests’ actions can’t be blamed on the hosts
Know how to legally collect party donations
Know how to avoid being mistakenly charged for serving to minors
Be able to set-up their party space to avoid noise violations and confrontations with neighbors
Be able to invite guests without making the even legally “public”
Understand of the basics of the underage drinking laws for their specific state and town
Learn the penalties for most alcohol related violations including jail time, fine amounts, and loss of drivers licenses
Be able to interact with the police if they do show up at the party and get the best possible outcome
Understand the basics of search and seizure law, including the myriad exceptions, and know how to proceed when confronted with an issue
Have actionable steps to take if, despite their best efforts, there was a legal issue at their party including how to find and evaluate a competent attorney
SEX AND THE LAW
Make sure your students, or troops, understand how the law applies to the more sordid parts of their lives. After the lecture attendees will:
Understand the basics of consensual sexual issues—adultery, fornication, crimes against nature and statutory rape (one of the most mis-quoted laws on any college campus)
Know their rights in the areas of contraceptive issues, pregnancy and abortion
Be able to explain criminal transmission of an STD and voyeurism laws
Have an understanding of how public nudity and public urination (and defecation, but hey, if you’re defecating in public you’ve got bigger problems than any lecture can solve) intersect.
Know the basics of current sexting laws, including recent cases and laws
Be able to identify how statutory rape, child pornography and sexual misconduct charges may apply to simple peer to peer texts
Have a working set of guidelines to determine what is and isn’t appropriate to text
Have specific actions to take if they are being stalked (real-world or online)
Know how to avoid falling victim to date rape drugs
Be able to preserve the evidence correctly if they are, god forbid, the victims of an assault
Know the basics of the Campus Sex Crime Victim’s Bill of Rights
Have specific actions to take to protect their safety online (including having the literal bejesus scared out of them by stories of people who weren’t careful)
CLASSROOM LAW
Class, it’s ACTUALLY the reason people go to college, so make sure your students understand their rights and responsibilities in the classroom. After the lecture students will:
Have basic strategies for dealing with their professors
Be able to take specific steps to challenge an unfair grade from evaluating if the grade was unjustified (often the most important part), through approaching the professor, to alternative options if the professor won’t budge
Understand the limits of the protection academic freedom offers students
Have a working knowledge the laws and local rules about romantic relationships with professors
Be able to explain the major kinds of plagiarism and the underlying theories behind them
Know how dangerous employing the services of a paper mill can be (both academically and financially)
Be able to identify word theft, idea theft, structural plagiarism in their own work
Have specific actions to take to avoid inadvertent plagiarism at every step of the paper writing process
Understand the many ways they can (and most likely will) be caught if they do cheat
COMPUTING LAW
Make sure your students, or troops, understand the potential pitfalls of being careless online. After the lecture attendees will:
Understand the basics of current sexting laws, including recent cases and laws
Be able to explain the application of statutory rape, child pornography and sexual misconduct charges to simple peer to peer texts
Have a working set of guidelines to determine what is and isn’t appropriate to text
Understand the legal principles and difficulties behind cyber-bullying
Know the federal, state, local and school (if applicable) rules and laws concerning cyber harassment and cyber stalking
Have a working knowledge of recent cases involving online bullying
Have steps to take if they, themselves are being bullied online including strategies for reducing retaliation and which authorities to approach for help
Have a working knowledge of federal privacy laws and their applicability (or lack of) to online postings
Be able to avoid online run-ins with school authorities, employers, potential employers, the police and others
Have specific actions to take to protect their safety and privacy online (including having the literal bejesus scared out of them by stories of people who weren’t careful)
Videos
Videos
University of Dubuque Presents: Social Media & Law - C.L. Lindsay February 3, 2015
Computing and the law- CL Lindsey hosted by NMHU Housing
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