Chloë Kennedy's talk will focus on her new book - Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law - published with Cambridge University Press. Chloë will present some of the main findings and core arguments of her book.
The book traces the development of a range of civil and criminal laws across c. 250 years, showing how using deception to induce intimacy (i.e. sex and sexual and / or romantic relationships) has been legally understood, compensated and punished. It offers an original interpretation of the form and function of these laws by situating them in their social and cultural contexts. More specifically, it argues that prevailing notions of what makes intimacy valuable, including the role it plays in self-construction, have shaped and constrained the laws' operation. Through this analysis, the book shows how deceptively induced sex has come to be treated more seriously over time, whereas the opposite is true of deceptively induced relationships. It concludes by presenting a new framework for deciding whether and when deceptively induced intimacy should be regulated by law today.
Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law:https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/law/socio-legal-studies/inducing-intimacy-deception-consent-and-law?format=HB.
Prof Chloe Kennedy is Professor of Law and History at the University of Edinburgh and the author of a major new monograph, Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law, published by Cambridge University Press. Her research interests are criminal law, legal theory, legal history, and the relationship between these areas. She is particularly interested in intellectual and cultural legal history, focussing on the ways that prevailing ideas have shaped the law's development and continue to inform our contemporary assumptions.
- Speaker
- Professor Chloe Kennedy
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- School of Law
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- Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue - A21)
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Event is free and open to all. To register for the online event please email law-research@abdn.ac.uk