Michelle Madden Dempsey

Villanova University School of Law

Harold Reuschlein Scholar Chair & Professor of Law

299 N. Spring Mill Road

Villanova, PA 19085

United States

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1.

Rethinking Wolfenden: Prostitute-Use, Criminal Law, and Remote Harm

Criminal Law Review, pp. 444-455, 2005
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 07 Apr 2005
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Criminal law, prostitution, harm principle, endangerment, Wolfenden, consent, fair imputation

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Why Sexual Penetration Requires Justification

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 27, No. 3, p. 467, 2007, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23/2008
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Nov 2007
Michelle Madden Dempsey and Jonathan Herring
Villanova University School of Law and University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
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criminal law, sexual offences, rape, feminist theory

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Decriminalizing Victims of Sex Trafficking

American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 52:207, 2015, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2014-1015
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2015
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Sex Trafficking, Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Criminalization, Abolitionism, Nordic Model, Justifications of Punishment, Palermo Protocol

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What Counts as Domestic Violence? A Conceptual Analysis

William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 12, No. 2
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Oct 2005
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Domestic violence, criminal law, conceptual analysis

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How to Argue About Prostitution

Criminal Law & Philosophy, January 2012, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp 65-80, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2011-15
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 11 May 2013
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Prostitution, Consent, Women, Methodology, Empirical Research, Philosophical, Political

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Sex Trafficking and Criminalization: In Defense of Feminist Abolitionism

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 158, No. 6, 2010, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2010-20
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 17 Nov 2010
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Prostitution, trafficking, sexual offenses, feminism, abolitionism, criminal law, criminal theory, endangerment, complicity

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Victimless Conduct and the Volenti Maxim: How Consent Works

Criminal Law and Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 2013, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2013-3038
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 May 2013 Last Revised: 11 May 2013
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Consent, moral conduct

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Defining Sex Trafficking in International and Domestic Law: Mind the Gaps

Emory International Law Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2012, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2013-3036
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 May 2013
Michelle Madden Dempsey, Carolyn Hoyle and Mary Bosworth
Villanova University School of Law, University of Oxford - Centre for Criminological Research and University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
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sex trafficking, human rights, definitions of trafficking

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On Finnis’s Way In

Villanova Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 5, 2012, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2013-3035
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 03 May 2013
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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jurisprudence, legal philosophy, methodological issues in general jurisprudence

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The Normative Force of Consent in Moral, Political, and Legal Perspective

Michelle Madden Dempsey, "The Normative Force of Consent in Moral, Political, and Legal Perspective," in Tatjana Hörnle (ed.), SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE -- WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM AND FOR LAW REFORM? (Oxford University Press)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Feb 2022
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Consent, sexual offenses, rape, normative perspectives, morality, law, politics

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Applied Political and Legal Philosophy

Applied Political and Legal Philosophy, in The Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy, Kimberley Brownlee, David Coady, and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, (eds.), Wiley, 2017, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2016-1038
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 24 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2017
Michelle Madden Dempsey and Matthew J. Lister
Villanova University School of Law and Bond University Faculty of Law
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Applied philosophy, Political Philosophy, Legal Philosophy, Standard Activism, Extreme Activism, Conceptual Activism, Methodology

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Teaching Rape: Some Reflections on Pedagogy

Trinity Term, 2008
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 07 May 2010
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Public Wrongs and the ‘Criminal Law’s Business’: When Victims Won’t Share

CRIME, PUNISHMENT, AND RESPONSIBILITY: THE JURISPRUDENCE OF ANTONY DUFF, Rowan Cruft, Matthew H. Kramer, and Mark R. Reiff, eds., Oxford University Press, 2011 , Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2011-08
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Jul 2011
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Criminalization, Public/Private, Wrongs, Jurisprudence, Criminal, Law Victims

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Book Review of Michael J. Zimmerman's The Immorality of Punishment

Law and Philosophy, Vol. 32, p. 333, 2013, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2013-3033
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 03 May 2013 Last Revised: 11 May 2013
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Legal philosophy, criminal law, law and society, jurisprudence, crime, punishment

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Breaking New Ground in International Criminal Law and Philosophy

Transnational Legal Theory, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 453, 2010, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2010-21
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 17 Nov 2010
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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International Criminal Law, Jurisprudence, ICC, Criminal Law, Criminal Theory, Philosophy of Law

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Toward a Feminist State: What Does Effective Prosecution of Domestic Violence Mean?

Modern Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 6, p. 908, 2007
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 02 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 11 May 2013
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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domestic violence, criminal law, prosecution, prosecutorial discretion, legal ethics, practical reasoning, criminal procedure, feminist theory

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Prosecuting Violence against Women: Toward A 'Merits-Based' Approach to Evidential Sufficiency

14 Revista Jurídica de la Universidad de Palermo (University of Palermo Law Review, Buenos Aires, Argentina) (2015), Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2016-1032
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 Oct 2016
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Criminal Prosecution, Evidential Sufficiency, Denunciation, Sticky Norms, Violence against Women, Rape, Merits-Based Approach, Expressive Value

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Sharing Reasons for Criminalization? No Thanks…Already Got ‘Em!

Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2010-15
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 27 May 2010
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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criminal law, criminalization, wrongdoing, crimes against humanity

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The Object of Criminal Responsibility

Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2010-14
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 27 May 2010
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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criminal law, negligence, responsibility, blame

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Book Review: Victor Tadros, Criminal Responsibility

Theoretical Criminology, Vol. 11, No. 1, p. 129, 2007
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 10 May 2010
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Authority, Obedience, and Justification

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 2, 2021
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 Apr 2022
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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authority, obedience, justification, jurisprudence, legal philosophy, philosophical anarchism, john gardner, joseph raz, service conception of authority

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Sex Trafficking and Worker Justice: Insights from Catholic Social Teaching

Journal of Catholic Social Thought, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2012, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2013-3037
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 May 2013
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Sex trafficking, Catholic social teaching

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Why We Are All Jurisprudes (or, at Least, Should Be)

66 Journal of Legal Education 29 (2016), Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2016-1034
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 25 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 02 May 2017
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Jurisprudence, Scholarship, Legal Positivism, Legal Obligation, Moral Obligation, Eliminativism

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Sex & Coercion: Comments on Green's Criminalizing Sex

Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 04 Oct 2022
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Coercive, Sex, Threats, Offers, Normative Baselines, Duties

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Smith and Hogan at Villanova: Reflections on Anglo-American Criminal Law, the Definition of Rape, and What America Still Needs to Learn from England

Villanova Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 3, 2016, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2016-1037
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 23 Feb 2017
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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criminal law, sexual assault, rape, mens rea, English law, comparative law

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Against Liability: Toward a Reasons-Based Account of Self-Defense

Against Liability: A Reasons-Based Account of Self-Defense, in Ethics of Self Defense, Christian Coons and Michael Weber, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2016), Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2016-1033
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2017
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Self-Defense, Liability to Harm, Practical Reason

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Punishment and Coherence

Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche (Philosophy and Public Issues (New Series)), Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 43-56, 2015, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2016-1031
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 25 Oct 2016
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Criminal Law, Punishment, Expressive Function of Punishment, Penal Pluralism, Pick-A-Mix Theories of Punishment, Coherence, Practical Reason, Auxiliary Reasons,Thom Brookes

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Response to Commentators

Criminal Law & Philosophy (Symposium on Michelle M. Dempsey's "Prosecuting Domestic Violence"), Volume 8, Issue 3, October 2014. , Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2014-1016
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Oct 2014
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law
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Domestic Violence, Prosecutorial Discretion, Criminal Law

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Coercion, Consent, and Time

Ethics 2021 (University of Chicago Press)
Posted: 19 Oct 2022
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law

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Consent, Coercion, Time, Wrongdoing, Justification, Blame, Accountability, Sexual misconduct

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Researching Trafficked Women: On Institutional Resistance and the Limits to Feminist Reflexivity

Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 17, p. 769, 2011, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2011-21
Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Michelle Madden Dempsey, Mary Bosworth and Carolyn Hoyle
Villanova University School of Law, University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Oxford - Centre for Criminological Research

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Trafficking, Prostitution, Victims, Methodology, Empirical Research

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Labelling the Victims of Sex Trafficking: Exploring the Borderland between Rhetoric and Reality

Social & Legal Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, p. 313, 2011, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2011-20, Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship Research Paper No. 1961697
Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Michelle Madden Dempsey, Mary Bosworth and Carolyn Hoyle
Villanova University School of Law, University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Oxford - Centre for Criminological Research

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Trafficking, Prostitution, Victims, Women

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Prosecuting Domestic Violence: A Philosophical Analysis

Michelle Madden Dempsey, PROSECUTING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS, Oxford University Press, 2009, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15/2009
Posted: 18 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 03 May 2009
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Villanova University School of Law

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