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Michelle Dempsey: Sexual Wrongdoing in the Past

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Oxford Conversations on Consent
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Michelle Madden Dempsey is a Professor of Law at Villanova University. In this episode, Michelle and Kate discuss the ethics of holding people accountable for sexual (mis)conduct that took place in the distant past.

Michelle Madden Dempsey as Professor of Law at Villanova University teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, feminist legal theory, and philosophy of law. The episode draws on Professor Dempsey’s 2021 Ethics paper, “Coercion, Consent, and Time.

Kate Greasley is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Oxford. She is the Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded project, “Sexual Consent in the Post-#MeToo World: A Study in Philosophy and Law.”

Visit the project website https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sexual-consent-in-the-post-metoo-world/sexual-consent-post-metoo-world

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Series
Oxford Conversations on Consent
People
Michelle Dempsey
Kate Greasley
Keywords
sexual wrongdoing
sexual misconduct
law
consent
Department: Faculty of Law
Date Added: 22/07/2026
Duration: 00:28:29

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