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

"Half the states don't even have a definition of consent," says Erin Murphy, a professor at New York University School of Law who's involved in a project to rewrite a model penal code on sex assault.

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 ...

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 ...

A bill that would have added a legal definition of consent to South Dakota's rape statute died in a Senate committee Tuesday afternoon. House Bill 1150 would have added a definition for "consent ...

To know there's a legal definition for consent makes me feel more protected," Dunning said. Dawn Dunning leaves New York Criminal Court following the sentencing of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein ...

The lack of legal clarity around consent laws in the U.S. means that many sexual assaults, especially ones on college ...

Affirmative consent means that consent is clear, knowing, and voluntary. CU Boulder’s definition of consent does have an affirmative consent standard, and states that, “Consent must include words or ...

The Summer Willis Act would define what consent means in Texas and help sexual assault survivors in the state. But with just two weeks left in the Texas Legislature's 2025 session, this bipartisan ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York will have a statewide definition of affirmative consent on college campuses as part of a law to combat sexual assaults.. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders ...