
A Collaborative Research Network within the Law and Society Association
Events
LSA 2025 CRN6 Panel Schedule
LSA 2025 CRN6 Panel Schedule
(As of 4/18/2025)
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Wednesday 5/21
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Day of Dialogue | TBA (This is a CRN6 Event outside the LSA schedule)
Day of Dialogue: Decriminalizing Sex Work in Illinois
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Thursday 5/22
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Paper Session | Room: Randolph 1B
Stratification, Culture & Technology in Sexual Economies
Experiences of Transgender Women on OnlyFans
By Patricia Fernandez
Pathivratha Precarity: The Inevitability of Sex Work Within Brahmanical Patriarchy in India
By Kimberly Walters
Regulating Desire: The U.S. Southern States Anti-Porn Bills and Public Perspectives
By Fernanda Veiverberg
Sex Robots: The Perspectives of Sex Workers
By Yeela Lahav-Raz
By Alex Nelson, A. Douglas, P. Fernandez, H. Maltempi, F. Veiverberg, & Y. Yu
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM | Paper Session | Room: Randolph 3
The Impact of Legibility, Litigation, Legality on Labor Rights
By Laura Graham
By Ann De Shalit, Katrin Roots, Jessica Templeman, & Emily van der Meulen
Decriminalised, Debanked and Underserved: Sex Workers’ Financial Exclusion in Aotearoa New Zealand
By Claire Weinhold
Formally Informal? Sex Work, Stigma, and Institutions
By Erica Laplante
By Alexander Wulf
12:45 PM - 2:30 PM | Paper Session | Room: Roosevelt 1B
Bracing for Impact: Anti-trafficking Policing and International Mega Sporting Events
By Gregory Mitchell
Mapping Mega-Event Policing in Los Angeles
By Amanda De Lisio, Benton Oliver, Jen Elizabeth, Bria Hamilton, Soma Snakeoil
By Annalee Lepp
12:45 PM - 2:30 PM (Roundtable Session-Michigan 1B)
Gender and Social Inequality: Rethinking Law in Contemporary Brazil
Note: Organized by CRN7 (Feminist Legal Theory) and co-sponsored by CRN6
Chair
Fabio Braga, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Participants
Fabio Braga, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thais Duarte Zappelini, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ana Claudia Farranha Santana, Universidade de Brasilia - UnB
Thallyta Laryssa Pedroza Ferreira Cavoli, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
2:45 PM - 4:30 PM | Paper Session | Room: Michigan 2
The Overlooked in Anti-Trafficking
Note: Co-organized by CRN6, CRN23, and CRN 36
By Audrey Lumley-Sapanski & Katarina Schwarz
Human Trafficking in Latin America: Ratification of the Palermo Protocol in Comparative Perspective
By Pamela Alicia Vargas Gorena
The Challenges of Estimating Prevalence in Human Trafficking Research
By Todd Landman, Doreen Boyd & Terence Fitzgerald
By Adedayo Akingbade
Friday, 5/23
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Paper Session | Room: Roosevelt 3B
Rethinking Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking
From Anti-Trafficking to Anti-Prostitution: American Philanthropy at the League of Nations
By Jean Allain
Reproductive Exploitation in the Amended EU Anti-Trafficking Directive
By Lauren Eglen
By Ben Brewster
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM | New Books in the Field | Room: Michigan 1B
CRN06 Sex, Work, Law and Society New Books in the Field
Voicing Consent – Sex Workers, Sexual Violation and Legal Consciousness in Cross-National Contexts
Teela Sanders, Jane Scoular, Barbara G. Brents, Susie Balderston, & Gillian Abel
Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice
Elene Lam & Chanelle Gallant
Israeli Masculinity, Sex Work, and Consumerism: Heteronormativity and Sexual Repertoires
Yeela Lahav-Raz
South Asian Pornographies: Vernacular Formations of the Permissible and the Obscene
Darshana Sreedhar Mini & Anirban K. Baishya
Judging Sex Work: Bedford and the Attenuation of Rights
Colton Fehr
Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the Twenty-First Century
Bernadette Barton, Barbara G. Brents & Angela Jones
12:45 PM - 2:30 PM | Author Meets Reader (AMR) Session | Room: Michigan 1B
AMR Margaret L. Boittin, The Regulation of Prostitution in China: Law in the Everyday Lives of Sex Workers, Police Officers, and Public Health Officials
Author
Margaret Boittin, York University
Readers
Sarah Biddulph, University of Melbourne
Kathryn Hendley, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ethan Michelson, Indiana University Bloomington
2:45 PM - 4:30 PM | Professional Development Panel | Room: Grand D North
Chairs
Corinne Schwarz, Oklahoma State University
Corey Shdaimah, University of Maryland
Participants
Menaka Raguparan, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Jamie Rowen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Atieh Babakhani, Ramapo College of New Jersey
4:45 PM - 6:30 PM | Paper Session | Room: Randolph 2
Empowering Communities: Grassroots Resistance and Social Change
Bodily Autonomy and Rationality in Anti-Trans Legislation and Policing in Georgia, U.S.A.
By SJ Dillon
Decriminalizing Sex Work - An Overview of Successes and a Plan Forward
By Crystal DeBoise
Lessons Learned: Sex work, Mutual aid, and COVID-19
By Michelle Lesley Annett & Rob Heynen
Racialized and Indigenous sex workers and the Canadian Sex Workers' Rights Movement
By Menaka Raguparan & Julie Ham
By Malavika Parthasarathy
Saturday, 5/24
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM | Paper Session | Room: Randolph 3
Methodological and Theoretical Innovations in Studying Sex Work, Sexuality, Media and Law
By Emily Tivoli
Law’s a Drag: A Queer Collaborative Research Network
By James Greenwood-Reeves & Rosie Fox
By Rajeshwari Nandkumar
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM | Roundtable Session | Room: Monroe 5 Boardroom
Moving the Needle: Mapping New Directions for Critical Anti-trafficking Advocacy
Chair
Rashmee Singh, University of Waterloo
Participants
Alison Clancey, GAATW Canada
Leigh Elliott, Peers Victoria Resources Society
Julie Ham, Department of Sociology, Brock University
Annalee Lepp, Gender Studies, University of Victoria
12:45 PM - 2:30 PM | Roundtable Session | Room: Michigan 1B
Queer Politics, Rightward Retrenchment
Note: Organized by CRN7 Feminist Legal Theory and co-sponsored by CRN6
Chair
Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto
Participants
Daniel Del Gobbo, University of Windsor Faculty of Law
Joseph Fischel, Yale University
Senthorun Raj, Manchester Metropolitan University
Kate Redburn, Columbia Law School
I. India Thusi, Indiana University Bloomington
2:45 PM - 4:30 PM | Roundtable Session | Room: Michigan 1A
Note: co-organized by CRN7, CRN55 & CRN6)
Chair
Chantal Thomas, Cornell University
Participants
Helena Alviar, Sciences Po Law School
Kerry Rittich, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Nicole Stybnarova, Harvard University
Yiran Zhang, Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations