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Michelle Madden Dempsey

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2012

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How To Argue About Prostitution, Michelle Dempsey Dec 2011

How To Argue About Prostitution, Michelle Dempsey

Michelle Madden Dempsey

This article provides a comparative analysis of various methodologies employed in building arguments regarding prostitution law and policy, and reflects on the proper aims of legal philosophy more generally. Taking Peter de Marneffe’s Liberalism and Prostitution (OUP 2010) as a launching point for these reflections, the article offers a mostly favourable review of the book as a whole, and defends the philosophical enterprise as one (amongst other) valuable ways to argue about prostitution.


Sex Trafficking And Worker Justice, Michelle Dempsey Dec 2011

Sex Trafficking And Worker Justice, Michelle Dempsey

Michelle Madden Dempsey

This essay argues that the dualistic conception of work in Catholic social teaching – most notably in John Paul II’s Laborem Excerens – may provide a bridge between otherwise deeply divided views regarding how to conceptualize and define sex trafficking.