Dr Tanya Palmer is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex, who specialises in Criminal Law with a particular focus on the sexual offences and the intersection of sexual and domestic abuse. She has a BA in Law from the University of Oxford, an MSc in Socio-Legal Studies and a PhD in Law from the University of Bristol. She is passionate about making legal issues more accessible to the public.
Experience
2013–present
Lecturer in Law, University of Sussex
2012–2013
ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Bristol
2008–2013
Teacher, University of Bristol
Publications
2021
Telling the wrong stories: rough sex, coercive control and the criminal law, Child and Family Law Quarterly
2020
Failing to See the Wood for the Trees: Chronic Sexual Violation and Criminal Law, 84(6) The Journal of Criminal Law 573
2018
Rape pornography, cultural harm and criminalization, 69 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 37
2017
Distinguishing sex from sexual violation: Consent, negotiation and freedom to negotiate, In: Reed, Bohlander, Wake and Smith (eds) Consent: Domestic and Comparative Perspectives (Routledge)
2016
State control of consensual sexual behaviour through the Sexual Offences Act 2003, In: Ashford, Reed and Wake (eds.) Legal perspectives on state power: consent and control. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)