The current state of the law is not clear about whether campus administrators have a duty to identify students who pose a risk of committing rampage killings and what, if any, special duty a university may have to prevent harm to the lives of other students.  

Ben Williamson’s Note, The Gunslinger to the Ivory Tower Came: Should Universities Have a Duty to Prevent Rampage Killings? 60 Fla. L. Rev. 895, explores the duty to protect third parties from harm imposed by Tarasoff, the difficulty of using psychological signs as accurate predictors for aberrant behavior, and the negative consequences of imposing a duty to prevent harm on educational institutions.

Read Williamson’s Note on the Florida Law Review website at: www.floridalawreview.com.