Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice

Abstract

In this Article, I undertake two distinct tasks. First, I want to discuss what the laws against sexual assault ideally should look like. But second, I also want to discuss rape law from the perspective of someone who has spent the past four years in the messy and frustrating work of legislative compromise, trying to design law reform that can be both progressive and enactable. There is an obvious contradiction in that regard. The goal is to pass reforms that move society and our criminal justice system in a progressive direction, to the place where society ought to be. But that means, by definition, getting broad agreement on principles about which people do not agree—at least not yet.

First Page

335

Volume

35

Publication Date

2017

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