Meeting

Virtual Roundtable: A Conversation With Catharine A. MacKinnon: The Debate on Sex Trafficking and Prostitution

Tuesday, June 9, 2020
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Speaker
Catharine A. MacKinnon

Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan

Presider
Catherine Powell

Adjunct Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Women and Foreign Policy Roundtable Series and Women and Foreign Policy Program

The international debate on prostitution and sex trafficking continues as COVID-19 spreads, with the United Nations warning that the pandemic has exacerbated the many risks to those harmed in the sex industry. Our speaker Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long professor of law at the University of Michigan and James Barr Ames visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School, discusses this debate under current conditions and in the long term.

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