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GLJ Short - My Body is my Temple? Comparing Sexual Crimes and Property Crimes in a Human Rights Tradition
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With Otava Piha
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Link to the article
[Otava Piha, "My Body Is My Temple? Comparing Sexual Crimes and Property Crimes in a Human Rights Tradition" German Law Journal vol. 25:1 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2023.97)
Table of Contents of Volume 25
Abstract
Abstract: Despite recent criminal law reforms to define rape through the lack of consent, practical questions remain about how to regulate different kinds of violations of sexual autonomy. Many common law scholars have found it eye-opening how much more extensive and easily accepted the protection of property rights is compared to the protection of sexual autonomy. But when the rationale of criminalization resides in human rights, such a comparison is alien; protecting human dignity appears separate from protecting instrumental property rights. Considering rape a subversion of our ownership rights to our bodies (the property model of rape) is rightly regarded as problematic. This article argues that comparing sexual crimes and property crimes is not predicated on the property model but rather on autonomy itself. Comparisons based on autonomy could help resolve practical dilemmas of consent-based rape laws while respecting human dignity and thus be fruitful research pursuits within a human rights tradition.
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1. GLJ Short - Introduction (00:00:00)
2. In a nutshell, what is the article about? (00:00:28)
3. What's at stake and why now? (00:02:54)
4. How did you come to research and write about this topic? (00:04:24)
5. Outro (00:05:55)
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