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DEBORAH TUERKHEIMER

2023

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• The Importance of E. Jean Carroll’s Lawsuit Against Donald Trump, New York Time (Apr. 25, 2023).

2022

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• The Thinking About Consent Has Evolved Drastically. This Code May Turn the Clock Back., New York Times (May 16, 2022) (Co-authored by: Michelle J. Anderson).

• Op-Ed: No Matter How the Heard/Depp Trial Ends, Defamation Lawsuits Against Accusers Are Here to StaY, Los Angeles Times (May 23, 2022).

2021

Books

• Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers (2021).

Articles

• Sexual Violation Without Law, 76 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 609 (2021).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Police Sexual Misconduct and the ‘Credibility Discount, InjusticeWatch (Dec. 21, 2021).

• Ghislaine Maxwell Is Guilty. What Happens Next Is Critical., New York Times (Dec. 29, 2021).

• Blame-Shifting Gives a Pass to Abusers—and It’s a Dominant Feature of U.S. Culture and Law, Ms. Magazine (Nov. 29, 2021).

• How U.S. Sexual-Harassment Law Encourages a Culture of Victim Blaming, Time (Oct. 5, 2021).

• How Was Larry Nassar Able to Get Away with His Terrible Crimes?, The Guardian (Oct. 31, 2021).

• The Credibility Discount: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers, Literary Hub (Sept. 30, 2021).

• What the Andrew Cuomo Reports Says About Those Around the Governor, CNN.com (Aug. 9, 2021).

• R. Kelly’s Trial Is Finally Set to Begin, New York Magazine – The Cut (Aug. 9, 2021).

2020

Articles

• Unofficial Reporting in the #MeToo Era, 2019 University Of Chicago Legal Forum 273.

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• I Spent Hours Talking to Victims. These Verdicts Will Give Them Hope., New York Times (Feb. 24, 2020).

• What Weinstein’s Defense Team Will Unleash, CNN.com (Jan. 14, 2020).

2019

Books

• Sexual Agency and the Unfinished Work of Rape Law Reform in Research Handbook On Feminist Jurisprudence, co-edited by Robin West & Cynthia Grant Bowman, edited by Robin West & Cynthia Grant Bowman (2019).

Articles

• Beyond #MeToo, 94 New York University Law Review 1146 (2019).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Epstein Case Spotlights Why It’s So Hard to Prosecute Sex Crimes, CNN.com (July 15, 2019).

2018

Books

• Feminist Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials, 5th ed. (2018) (Co-authored by: Kimberly Yuracko, Cynthia Bowman & Laura Rosenbury).

Articles

• Criminal Justice and the Mattering of Lives, 116 Michigan Law Review 1145 (2018).

• Interrogating Ethnography Conference, Panel Discussion: Ethnographic Evidence, 13 Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 138 (2018) (Co-authored by: Claudio Benzecry, Philip Cohen, Steve Mills, Christena Nippert-Eng, & Mary Pattillo).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Why Sexual Assault Survivors Often Don’t Come Forward, CNN.com (Sept. 17, 2018).

• Kavanaugh’s Hearing: The Most Momentous ‘He Said, She Said’ Showdown of Our Time, CNN.com (Sept. 26, 2018).

• Let’s Ease Statutes of Limitations in Rape Cases, Washington Post (May 25, 2018).

• #MeToo Comes to the Cosby Courtroom, New York Times (Apr. 9, 2018).

• The Cosby Jury Finally Believes the Women, New York Times (Apr. 26, 2018).

2017

Articles

• What If Only One Woman Had Accused Harvey Weinstein?, The Guardian (Oct. 22, 2017).

• Shaken Baby Syndrome Is Not Definitive Proof of Child Abuse, New Scientist (Sept. 19, 2017).

• What to Look for in the Cosby Sex Assault Trial, Newsweek (Jun. 6, 2017).

• He Said, She Said, Ms. Magazine Blog (Apr. 27, 2017).

• Of Abortion and Animals: The Promise and Peril of Legal Rights, Boston University Law Review Annex (Mar. 26, 2017).

• Incredible Women: Sexual Violence and the Credibility Discount, 166 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1 (2017).

• After Flint: Environmental Justice as Equal Protection, 111 Northwestern University Law Review 93 (2017) (Co-authored by: David Dana).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• The Deck Is Stacked Against Every Sexual Assault Victim in America. The Cosby Case Is No Different, SLATE.COM (Jun. 18, 2017).

2016

Articles

• Underenforcement as Unequal Protection, 57 Boston College Law Review (2016).

• Affirmative Consent, 13 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 441 (2016).

2015

Articles

• Rape On and Off Campus, 65 Emory Law Journal 1 (2015).

• Book Review, 125 Ethics 905 (2015) (reviewing Anne Phillips, OUR BODIES, WHOSE PROPERTY?).

2014

Books

• Flawed Convictions: “shaken Baby Syndrome” and the Inertia of Injustice (Oxford University Press 2014).

Articles

• Confrontation and the Re-Privatization of Domestic Violence, 113 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW FIRST IMPRESSIONS 32 (2014).

• SlutWalking in the Shadow of the Law, 98 Minnesota Law Review 1453 (2014).

2013

Articles

• Sex Without Consent, 123 Yale Law Journal Online 335 (2013).

• Breakups, 25 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 51 (2013).

2012

Articles

• Judging Sex, 97 Cornell Law Review 101 (2012).

2010

Books

• Feminist Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials, 4th ed. (West Law School Publishing 2010) (Co-authored by: Cynthia Bowman, Laura Rosenbury and Kimberly Yuracko).