Inducing Intimacy: International Perspectives on Sexual Fraud

Chloë Kennedy’s Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (Cambridge 2024) tackles an important and timely topic that resonates across jurisdictions worldwide–the regulation of deceptively induced intimacy, notably through the criminal law–by taking a broadly interdisciplinary approach.

This workshop brings together an international group of contributors to a forthcoming Special Issue of the Modern Criminal Law Review, which will engage with Kennedy’s monograph to explore a wide range of connected issues (sex offenses, consent, deception, identity, criminalization, etc.) from several perspectives (doctrinal, historical, comparative, theoretical, etc.).

Participants include:

• Tatiana Badaró, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Moa Bladini, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Beatriz Corrêa Camargo, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil
• Sarai Chisala-Tempelhoff, Gender and Justice Unit, Malawi (moderator)
• Aya Gruber, University of Southern California, US
• Preeti Pratishruti Dash, National Law School of India University
• Nora Scheidegger, University of Bern, Switzerland
• Rachel Tolley, Cambridge University, UK
• Cristina Valega, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law & Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
• Chloë Kennedy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (author)

June 4, 2025 @ 11:30 (ET)

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