Professor of Law, Durham University
Clare McGlynn is an expert on laws relating to sexual violence, restorative justice, pornography and image-based sexual abuse (including 'revenge porn' and upskirting). She works closely with governments, policy-makers, campaigners and the voluntary sector to improve society’s laws and policies relating to violence against women.Her work is regularly cited in Parliament, the national media and she has given presentations on to policy-makers across the world.
She has undertaken a range of externally funded research projects including interviews and workshops with survivors of sexual violence and is part of the research group recently awarded an three-year Australian Research Council grant to investigate legal responses to ‘revenge pornography’.
She is the co-editor of Rethinking Rape Law: international and comparative perspectives (2010) and Feminist Judgments: from theory to practice (2010) and author of Families and the European Union: law, politics and pluralism (2006) and The Woman Lawyer: making the difference (1998).
Sexual abuse happens online, too – but current laws leave too many victims unprotected
Jul 01, 2019 03:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Peoples lives have been shattered by so-called revenge porn, upskirting, fake porn, sexual extortion and videos of sexual assaults and rape shared online. Victims and survivors can experience profound social rupture a...
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