Sexual Violence Investigative Officer: Christopher Mallios |
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January 27, 2015, Volume 61, No. 20 |
Christopher Mallios has been appointed the University’s inaugural Sexual Violence Investigative Officer. Mr. Mallios has served as Attorney Advisor for AEquitas since 2010, where he earned a national reputation as an expert on sexual violence, domestic violence and stalking. He has traveled throughout the country training and presenting to lawyers, judges and others regarding best practices in responding to these complaints.
Mr. Mallios is an affiliate of the Ortner Center on Family Violence. Previously, Mr. Mallios worked in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office for nearly 16 years, in a series of progressively responsible positons culminating in his service for four years as Chief of the Office’s Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit. During that period, Mr. Mallios also served as an advisor for the Philadelphia Police Department’s Special Victims Unit and Internal Affairs Divisions. He was also selected to serve as the District Attorney’s liaison to Philadelphia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
He was responsible for ongoing training of more than 300 prosecutors as the director of Continuing Legal Education at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, and was a frequent presenter for the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Institute. He also has taught trial advocacy as an adjunct professor at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University. Mr. Mallios has worked as a criminal defense attorney, representing many indigent defendants as a court-appointed lawyer in criminal trials including death penalty
cases.
In the newly-created role of Sexual Violence Investigative Officer, Mr. Mallios will serve as the principal investigator of all complaints of violations of the University’s policy on Sexual Violence, Relationship Violence and Stalking made against students enrolled in any of Penn’s 12 schools. He will work to support the University’s aims of fairly, fully and promptly investigating all such complaints and support the implementation of the new Amendment to the Student Disciplinary Charter for complaints of Sexual Violence (see supplement). He will also work with colleagues to educate students, faculty and staff about the new process for responding to complaints and assist with efforts to prevent sexual violence.
“We are very fortunate to have someone with Mr. Mallios’ depth of experience and expertise in investigating complaints of sexual violence and working with complainants and respondents,” said Vice President for Institutional Affairs Joann Mitchell. “Mr. Mallios’ former colleagues at AEquitas and those with whom he has worked on campus spoke highly of his integrity and unwavering commitment to fairness and due process.” His honors and awards include the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations Award for Human Rights in Law Enforcement, the Philadelphia Children’s Alliance’ Team Excellence Award and Women Organized Against Rape’s Signature Award. Mr. Mallios said that he “looks forward to working with Penn’s students, faculty and staff to develop exemplary investigative protocols that will ensure that all parties are treated with respect throughout the process.”
Mr. Mallios received his BS in science from Pennsylvania State University and his JD from Temple University School of Law. He served as a law clerk on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, and is member of the bars of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Related: OF RECORD: Student Disciplinary Charter Amendment: Student Disciplinary Procedures for Resolving Complaints of Sexual Assault, Sexual Violence, Relationship Violence and Stalking |