The Program on Race, Gender, and Policing at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV presented the Symposium on Policing Commercial Sex Work on Friday, April 4, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The symposium included academic panels and community discussions on how criminal laws and policing impacted consent and coercion in commercial sex work. It examined carceral logics and practices used to police unwanted contact in sex-working populations. This included theoretical and practical impacts of criminal law and policing practices in addressing sexual violence and sex trafficking in commercial sex.
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Opening and Welcoming Remarks
Dean and Richard J. Morgan Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV
Associate Director, Program on Race, Gender, and Policing & San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV
Policing, Poverty, and the Criminalization of Sex Work (10:30am-12pm)
Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research & Professor of Law
Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Professor of Law and Director of the Survivor Representation & Advocacy Clinic, William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV
Assistant Professor of Sociology, UNLV
PhD student in Social Welfare, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Lunch with Speakers (12:15-1:45pm)
Harold Medill Heimbaugh Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law
Professor of Sociology, UNLV
Policing Sex Work: Community Impact and Legal Responses (2:00-3:30pm)
Community Engagement Coordinator, The Cupcake Girls
Co-Executive Director (Programs & Development) of The Cupcake Girls
Staff Attorney, Decriminalize Sex Work
Clark County Commission Chairman
PhD Candidate, UNLV Sociology; LVRUC