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) ► To stay informed about upcoming MCLR+ events, publications, and projects, please sign up for the MCLR+ mailing list and check the MCLR+ website; to receive notifications about upcoming livestreams, subscri