At issue was how Texas sexual assault law outlined lack of consent. It did not specifically include victims who have been voluntarily intoxicated, making their cases nearly impossible to prosecute.

Meta is under fresh pressure from European regulators. The European Commission has warned the company it could face daily fines if its advertising model doesn’t meet tough new EU rules. The warning ...

SAN ANTONIO – For eight years, one horrific night in college shaped how Summer Willis defined herself.

The bipartisan measure, authored by Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, and carried in the Senate by Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, passed the House 135-2 and the Senate 31-0 before reaching the governor’s ...

Texas has recently overhauled its consent laws through the passage of House Bill 3073, now known as “the Summer Willis Act,” ...

Willis Act, set to take effect in Texas in 2025, addresses a significant gap in consent laws by clarifying that consent is ...

How does pornography and other cultural influences affect perceptions of safety and consent around sexual choking? This ...

The French Senate passed a bill late on Wednesday that includes lack of consent in the country's criminal definition of rape, ...

In her concise yet thought-provoking book, Consent: Fearful Asymmetry, Nilofer Kaul critically examines the concept of consent, unpacking its underlying assumptions of equality, rationality, and ...

To fix rape law, the legal definition of consent should be modified to remove provisions that take a rapist’s state of mind into account and add provisions that increase the quality of law’s respect ...

Activists wearing masks depicting President Emmanuel Macron have urged France to change its position and endorse a law proposed by the European Union that would define rape as sex without consent ...