Co-presented with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

Professor Halley will discuss American legal realism as it frames issues posed by a prohibition on rape differently than morally-based condemnations of rape and of most current feminist approaches. This talk will address the differences in order to open discussion on the many hard questions posed by the criminalization of rape and other forms of sexual assault. She is author of Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism (Princeton University Press, 2008); Left Legalism/Left Critique, co-edited with Wendy Brown (Duke University Press, 2002); and Don’t: A Reader’s Guide to the Military’s Anti-Gay Policy (Duke Univ. Press, 1999).

Reception to follow in the courtroom corridor.