Erin E. Murphy and Jennifer Morinigo | June 4, 2021 | Sexual Assault
Erin E. Murphy, Associate Reporter for Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses, answers the following questions: – The mental states and their definitions in the 1962 Model Penal Code have been incorporated into many state codes. What are...
Erin E. Murphy and Jennifer Morinigo | June 3, 2021 | Sexual Assault
Erin E. Murphy, Associate Reporter for Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses, answers the following questions: – What does the legal landscape currently look like across the states when it comes to grading of the types of offenses we see...
Jennifer Morinigo, Stephen J. Schulhofer and Erin E. Murphy | February 20, 2020 | Sexual Assault
The current ALI project Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses is a re-examination of Article 213 of the Model Penal Code. This post presents Section 213.12 (A-J) of the most recent project draft (Council Draft No. 10, printed on December 13,...
Kenneth W. Simons, Jonathan Cardi, Erin E. Murphy and Jennifer Morinigo | April 26, 2019 | Intentional Torts to Persons
The following entry contains the Scope Note appearing at the beginning of Chapter 2 – Consent, featured in Tentative Draft No. 4 of Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons. This draft will be presented to membership at the 2019 Annual Meeting...
Erin E. Murphy and Kenneth W. Simons | March 26, 2019 | Intentional Torts to Persons, Sexual Assault
In this episode of Reasonably Speaking, NYU Law’s Erin Murphy and UC Irvine Law’s Ken Simons explore the difference between criminal law and tort law in the United States and then focus on how “consent” is, and should be, defined in sexual assault allegations.From...
