Good Law | Bad Law

Good Law | Bad Law - Criminalizing Sex: A Conversation w/ Stuart Green

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Sex as a crime?  Oh yes, in many different ways.  Perhaps, the criminal law goes too far?  Not far enough? Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Professor Stuart Green, of Rutgers Law, to discuss how the criminal law deals with sex in so many different ways, from the notion of consent, rape law, sexual harassment, and more. Professor Green’s new book on this topic, Criminalizing Sex: A Unified Liberal Theory, comes out today and explores how a liberal system of criminal law should adequately protect individuals in their right not to be subjected to sexual contact against their will, while also safeguarding their right to engage in private, consensual sexual conduct.   In today’s episode, Aaron and Stuart question the role of law, specifically in terms of consent, autonomy, and morality. What should we criminalize? Are we guilty of over criminalizing? Stuart and Aaron are talking about some of the most contentious legal, moral, and