The Program on Race, Gender, and Policing at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV presents the Symposium on Policing Commercial Sex Work on Friday, April 4, 2025, from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. The symposium includes academic panels and community discussions of how criminal laws and policing impact consent and coercion in commercial sex work. The symposium will examine carceral logics and practices that are used to police unwanted contact in sex working populations. This will include theoretical and practical impacts of criminal law and policing practices in dealing with sexual violence and sex trafficking in commercial sex.
Approved for 4.5 hours of Nevada CLE Credit. The symposium is free, but registration is required.
Thank for the generous support of our sponsors
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)
Co-Executive Director (Programs & Development) of The Cupcake Girls
Staff Attorney, Decriminalize Sex Work
Clark County Commission Chairman
Grassroots network led by and for sex workers
PhD Candidate, UNLV Sociology; LVRUC