Wendy Murphy (born August 13, 1961)[1] is a lawyer specializing in child abuse and interpersonal violence.
[4] Murphy began her career as a prosecutor in Middlesex County, handling legal cases related to child abuse and sex crime.
[6] She successfully sued both Princeton University and Harvard Law School for violating Title IX regulations “by mishandling sexual assault complaints.”[7]
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).
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?