Event Description
The CFLS is thrilled to welcome Professor Michelle Madden Dempsey, as part of her visit co-sponsored by Green College, for her lecture, “Sex, Wrongdoing, and Criminalization: Gaining Perspectives," which seeks to distinguish the question of what justifies sexual penetration from the question of what justifies various sociopolitical and legal responses to it.
The discussion will span:
- The differences between the moral, sociopolitical, and legal normative perspectives and what illuminates when considering whether any given conduct constitutes wrongdoing;
- How the moral perspective can be used to evaluate sociopolitical and legal responses to wrongdoing, shifting the perspective to the agents who respond to the wrongdoing; and
- Evaluate, all things considered, whether the responses are justified
Light lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. No registration is required for in-person attendees.
Speaker
Michelle Madden Dempsey is the Harold Reuschlein Scholar Chair and Professor of Law at Villanova University, where she teaches and writes on criminal law, feminist legal theory, and philosophy of law. Before joining Villanova in 2009, she taught at the University of Oxford. Her book, Prosecuting Domestic Violence: A Philosophical Analysis, was published by Oxford University Press and received 2nd Prize in the Peter Birks Award for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. Dempsey’s publications have appeared in leading law and philosophy journals, including Oxford Review of Legal Studies, Modern Law Review, and Ethics. She is co-editor-in-chief of Criminal Law and Philosophy, co-general editor of OUP Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice, and co-founder of The Collective: Women in Legal Philosophy. An elected member of the American Law Institute and Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, she previously worked as a domestic violence prosecutor and civil litigator. She holds a DPhil from Oxford, an LLM from the LSE, and a JD from the University of Michigan.
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
- General Public
- All Students
- Alumni
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