Inducing Intimacy

Chloë Kennedy is Professor of Law and History at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. She has published widely in the areas of criminal law, legal history, legal theory, and law and gender. She is the co-editor of two books – Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In (Hart, 2019) and Leading Works in Criminal Law (Routledge, 2023). Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law is the product of a research fellowship Chloë was awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

• 1. Inducing intimacy: an introduction; Part I. Marriage: 2. Making Marriage; 3. Promising Marriage; 4. Faking Marriage; Part II. Sex: 5. Eliciting Sex; 6. Procuring Sex; 7. Imposing Sex; 8. Inducing intimacy: a conclusion.

'Chloë Kennedy's new monograph breaks new ground by considering the law's response to deceptively induced intimacy across both civil and criminal law over more than two centuries. It demonstrates enormous breadth of research and aligns analytical rigour with sensitivity to the human stories to which the law has been required to respond. The broad sweep of Kennedy's work allows for modern day laws to be understood in their fullest context.' James Chalmers, Regius Professor of Law, University of Glasgow