On June 15, 2026, Professors Tyler Rose Clemons and Robin Boyle-Laisure participated in a Feminist Legal Studies Roundtable held at Pace University. Professor Clemons’ paper, Phallophobia, explains that “phallophobia is the belief that people with penises are dangerous to women because they have penises—that the simple possession of a penis is sufficient in itself to make a person dangerous to women.”
Professor Robin Boyle-Laisure’s paper, Coercive Control, argues that in the aftermath of trials for sex and labor trafficking, the statutory element of coercion needs clarity. Frequently, expert witnesses have addressed coercive control in cases of intimate partner violence in the family law context, but a working model in the context of human trafficking cases is needed to assist courts and state legislatures.
