Symposium on Policing Commercial Sex Work (4.5 CLE)
Schedule
Fri Apr 04 2025 at 10:30 am to 04:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV | Las Vegas, NV
William S. Boyd School of Law and UNLV Department of Sociology presents a discussion about policing practices in the commercial sex industryAbout this Event
Join us for an academic panel and community discussion of how criminal laws and policing impact consent and coercion in commercial sex work
Approved for 4.5 hours of Nevada CLE Credit
The symposium will examine carceral logics and practices that are used to police unwanted contact in sex working populations. This will include theoretical and practical impacts of criminal law and policing practices in dealing with sexual violence and sex trafficking in commercial sex.
Symposium is free, but registration is required
Schedule (subject to change)
10:00 AM - Check in
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Policing, Poverty, and the Criminalization of Sex Work
Moderator: Eve Hanan - Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research, Director of the Misdemeanor Clinic, Professor of Law and Board Member of the Race, Gender & Policing Program
- Yvette Butler - Assistant Professor, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Survival labor, criminalizing poverty, crime/work, also on sex worker voices in law making
- Courtney Cross - Professor of Law, Director, Survivor Representation & Advocacy Clinic, William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV
Critique of criminalizing coercive control, policing sex work and domestic violence
- Lillian Jungleib - Assistant Professor, Sociology, UNLV
Sex trafficking diversion courts as individualizing poverty and sexual violence, critique of victim-based prostitution policy and rescue industry
- Kimberly Fuentes, MSW - PhD Candidate, UCLA Social Welfare, Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP-LA) LA Director of Research & Services
The impacts of criminalization on sex working communities, the ways they resist criminalization, and the role that social work can play in uplifting this resistance
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM - Keynote Lunch
A conversation with with Aya Gruber, Harold Medill Heimbaugh Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law and Barb Brents, Professor of Sociology, UNLV
Gruber is author of , and is currently writing a new book on the genealogy of sex crimes. Brents is a a local advocate for sex workers as laborers, and has authorized several books, including her latest edited volumes, and .
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Policing Sex Work: Community Impact and Legal Responses
- Commissioner Tick Segerblom - Chairman, Clark County Commission
- Amy Marie Merrell - Co-Executive Director Programs & Development of The Cupcake Girls
Impacts of local policing practices on sex trafficked individuals
- Rebecca Cleary - Staff Attorney at Decriminalize Sex Work
National experiences with policy and law
- Red Umbrella Collective
Hear from representatives of this grassroots network led by and for sex workers in Las Vegas who offer support through mutual aid, community events, and political activism
3:30 PM - Closing Remarks Followed by a Light Reception
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Where is it happening?
William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, United StatesUSD 0.00
