CREDIBLE Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers, w/ Deborah Tuerkheimer

Feminist Thinking Seminars

Week 5: Feminist Thinking Seminar with Professor Deborah Tuerkheimer

On Wednesday the 16th of February, tune into an online talk from Professor Deborah Tuerkheimer of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Tuerkheimer will be discussing her new book, CREDIBLE: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers, published by Harper Wave/HarperCollins, which calls on her experience as a former prosecutor, legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence to examine why we are primed to disbelieve allegations of sexual abuse–and how we can transform a culture and a legal system structured to dismiss accusers.A link to join this virtual talk is available here: <a href="https://meet.google.com/yxo-tyba-kbu" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://meet.google.com/yxo-tyba-kbu</a>

Deborah Tuerkheimer is a professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and her law degree from Yale Law School. ​​She teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, evidence, and feminist legal theory. Her book, CREDIBLE: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers, was published by Harper Wave/HarperCollins in October 2021. In 2014, Oxford University Press published her book, Flawed Convictions: “Shaken Baby Syndrome” and the Inertia of Injustice. She is also a co-author of the casebook Feminist Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials and the author of numerous articles on sexual violence and domestic violence. After clerking for Alaska Supreme Court Justice Jay Rabinowitz, she served for five years as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office, where she specialized in domestic violence prosecution. In 2015, Tuerkheimer was elected to the American Law Institute, an esteemed group of judges, lawyers, and legal scholars dedicated to the development of the law.

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