Aya Gruber | October 14, 2020 | Sentencing, Sexual Assault
Aya Gruber of University of Colorado Law School has posted #MeToo and Mass Incarceration (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: This Symposium Guest Editor’s Note is an adapted version of the Introduction to The Feminist War on Crime:...
Aya Gruber | September 4, 2020 | Policing
This article was originally published by California Law Review in Sept. 2020. The following is the introduction. On May 25, 2020, a video went viral depicting Amy Cooper, a White woman, calling the cops on Christian Cooper, a Black man, to tell them that an...
Aya Gruber | January 16, 2020 | Sentencing
This article was originally published by the New York Daily News on Jan. 12, 2020. View the original post here. As part of this year’s state of the state agenda, Gov. Cuomo announced sweeping changes to the criminal laws governing intoxicated sex. He has not...
Aya Gruber, Jennifer Long and Jennifer Morinigo | June 5, 2019 | Sexual Assault
Consent is a concept at the center of criminal law and sexual assault. So, why is it so difficult to accurately define? Sexual assault laws have evolved from requiring the victim to resist toward requiring consent. However, “consent” is defined in many ways.In this...
