Sex & Gender-Based Crimes

Brigitte Sotto

Corruption in the Catholic Church

Throughout the past few years, the Catholic Church has been exposed for covering up hundreds and hundreds of sexual assaults. Horror...

Lydia Boyer

Rethinking Rape in the Courtroom

The victim’s statement in the Stanford Rape Case made headlines in 2016 because the victim described what it was like to go through the...

Brigitte Sotto

Evidence that shouldn’t be forgotten about: The rape kit backlog

*Formatting and title updated Oct. 25, 2023. This blog was originally published under the title "Evidence That Shouldn't Be Forgotten...

Stefanie Steinberg

Much Ado About Nothing: #MeToo Movement Falls Short on Prosecutions

From October 2017 to now we have seen a litany of high profile men brought before the court of public opinion: Harvey Weinstein, Roger...

Samantha Fournier

Critiques of FOSTA: Combating sex trafficking or redirecting the problem?

*Formatting updated Oct. 25, 2023 On April 11, 2018, President Donald Trump signed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex...

Lisa Sendrow

Female Inmates, Too: Will They Benefit from the #MeToo Movement from Behind Bars?

In January 2018, a guilty verdict was reached against a former prison guard from the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York. He was...

Apoorva Deshmukh

The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA) and Relevant State Statutes in Maryland, Virginia

In 2001, there were approximately 2,100,146 persons incarcerated throughout the United States, with 1,324,464 individuals in federal or...

Erin Haney

Human Trafficking: Identifying and Prosecuting Traffickers.

There might be a misconception that human trafficking is solely an international issue. But clearly human trafficking is an issue that...

Dolores Sinistaj

California Passes Mandatory Sentencing for Rape

While 2016 was a year filled with many newsworthy stories in the criminal law world, the story of Stanford student, Brock Turner,...

Nathaniel Whitesel

Bill Cosby and the Secret (But Not-Binding) Agreement

Bill Cosby and his legal team probably are not very happy right now. It is certainly no secret that the once-cherished comedian has...

Travis Nemmer

Dear Colleague - Balancing Victim Privacy and Due Process in Campus Sexual Assault Cases

In 2011, Xialou Yu known as “Peter” to his friends, a Chinese national, and a sophomore at Vassar University, went to a party, and lost...

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