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Prostitution
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Problematic Treatment of Sex Exceptionalism in Criminal Law
By Tracy Thomas
Aya Gruber, Sex Exceptionalism in Criminal Law, 75 Stanford L. Rev. (forthcoming) Sex crimes are the worst crimes. People widely believe that sexual assault is graver than nonsexual assault, uninvited sexual…
Legal Profession Blog
Temporary Suspension
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court imposed a temporary suspension of an attorney facing charges of promoting prostitution.The New York Post reported on the chargesA defense attorney targeted vulnerable clients and pressured…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Taking a Closer Look at Legal Treatment of Contracts of Sexual Agreements
By Tracy Thomas
Albertina Antognini & Susan Frelich Appleton, Sexual Agreements, 99 Wash. U. L. Rev. (2022)Few would find it surprising that an agreement for sex falls outside the bounds of contract law.…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
SCC upholds prostitution-related convictions, after it declared relevant law unconstitutional
Section of the Criminal Code remained valid during suspension period of declaration of invalidity
Legal Profession Blog
Florida Sanctions
From the monthly discipline summaries of the Florida State BarAndrew Spark, 13201 Roosevelt Ave., PMB 818085, Flushing, N.Y., disbarred retroactive to July 15, 2019, when he was suspended because of a felony…
Paul W. Mollica Federal Courts Blog
Memes Admissible as Intrinsic Evidence of Prostitution Charge Under Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)(2), Holds Tenth Circuit
In United States v. Alfred, No. 19-1243 (10th Cir. Dec. 14, 2020), the Tenth Circuit finds no error in admission of memes from the defendant’s social media page as “intrinsic…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
LSA Announces Prize to Article on the Nordic Model of Criminalizing the Purchase, Rather than the Sale, of Sex
By Tracy Thomas
LSA Honorable Mention PrizeNiina Vuolajarvi is a Mellon/ACLS dissertation fellow at the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University, and a visiting PhD student at the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program…
Simple Justice
Short Take: The List of Shame
The argument, spurious as it may be, that the Sex Offender Registry is justified as a mean of alerting people to the child molester or rapist next door. Not “fair…
Legal Profession Blog
Low Point In High Point
The North Carolina State Bar accepted a three-year suspension of an attorney with the possibility of reinstatement after 18 months on these facts:On the early afternoon of Thursday, October 19,…
Legal Profession Blog
Judge Suspended After Felony Plea
An automatic interim suspension of an attorney and former judge has been ordered by the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board based on a felony guilty plea.Michigan Live had this storyFirst-term Monroe…