Legal scholar Deborah Tuerkheimer discusses her book, Credible, as well as her legal scholarship on sexual violence and her efforts to reform the Model Penal Code.

Show Notes

https://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/deborahtuerkheimer/

Tuerkheimer, Deborah.  2014.  “SlutWalking in the Shadow of the Law.”  Minnesota Law Review 98: 1453-1511.  https://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Tuerkheimer_MLR.pdf

Tuerkheimer, Deborah.  2021.  Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers.  New York: Harper Collins.  https://www.harpercollins.com/products/credible-deborah-tuerkheimer?variant=33063780909090

Kate Shaw interview of Tuerkheimer on the podcast, Strict Scrutiny https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/credible-why-we-doubt-accusers-and-protect-abusers/id1469168641?i=1000583656166

American Institute’s Project Gender Based Misconduct on Campus https://www.law.nyu.edu/news/stephen-schulhofer-erin-murphy-model-penal-code-sexual-assault-ali-approval#:~:text=The%20Model%20Penal%20Code%20(MPC)%20was%20revised,as%20%22No%22%2C%20establishes%20the%20lack%20of%20consent

 

ALI’s Model Penal Code Committee on Sexual Assault and Related Offenses https://www.ali.org/project/sexual-assault-and-related-offenses

Tuerkheimer, Deborah.  2025.  “Unwanted Pregnancy: Sex, Contraception, and the Limits of Consent.”  Minnesota Law Review 110(3): 829-893. https://minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/11024_Tuerkheimer.pdf

Tuerkheimer, Deborah.  2024.  “Victim, Reconstructed: Sex Crimes Experts and the New Rape Paradigm.”  University of Illinois Law Review 55-105.  https://illinoislawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Tuerkheimer.pdf

Tuerkheimer, Deborah.  2019.  “Beyond #MeToo.”  New York University Law Review.  94(5): 1146-1208.  https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Tuerkheimer.pdf

Preservation through transformation.  Siegel, Reva.  1995-96.  “’The Rule of Love’: Wife Beating as Prerogative and Policy.”  Yale Law Journal.  105: 2118-2206.  https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/Faculty/Siegel_TheRuleOfLove.pdf

Blooming after Grooming podcast.  https://www.bloomingafterpod.com/

MacKinnon, Catharine.  1982.  “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory.”  Signs.  7(3): 515:544.

For a discussion of betrayal trauma, a term coined and operationalized by Jennifer Freyd, see my interview with her and the show. Notes.

The Joyful Heart Foundation keeps track of the backlog of untested rape kits.  https://www.endthebacklog.org/

End Violence Against Women International.  https://evawintl.org/

Aequitas.  https://aequitasresource.org/

Abby Honold law named after Minnesota rape survivor.  https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/3/abby-honold-act-inspired-by-former-university-of-minnesota-student-is-signed-into-law

Tuerkheimer, Deborah.  2025.  “Survivors’ Justice.”  Virginia Law Review. 111(20): 101-21.

 

About Callisto https://medium.com/@AngieNmnh/how-callisto-betrayed-metoo-survivors-and-wasted-everyones-time-a5e2ffa98d08

Failure of criminal justice system in New Orleans.  https://theappeal.org/nopd-sexual-misconduct-rodney-vicknair/

https://sunypress.edu/Books/C/College-Girl

Alcoff, Linda, and Laura Gray. 2016.  “Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?” Signs: Journal Of Women In Culture & Society 18.2 (1993): 260-290.

Promising Young Woman, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620292/

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/judith-lewis-herman-md/truth-and-repair/9781541600546/

Tulane climate survey, https://climatesurvey.tulane.edu/

Iowa law on statute of limitations, Rose, Samantha.  2023.  “Vindication for Victims: A Proposal to Eliminate the Civil Statute of Limitations for Minor Sexual Abuse Claims in Iowa,” 108 Iowa Law Review 957-79, https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/volume-108-issue-2/vindication-victims-proposal-eliminate-civil-statute-limitations-minor-sexual-abuse