The Challenges of Designing Sexual Assault Law

Hörnle, Tatjana

doi:10.1093/clp/cuae002

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The Challenges of Designing Sexual Assault Law

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Hörnle, Tatjana
Criminal Law, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Max Planck Society;

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Hörnle, T. (2024). The Challenges of Designing Sexual Assault Law. Current Legal Problems, cuae002. doi:10.1093/clp/cuae002.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-2D49-E

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The paper compares and evaluates newer laws on sexual assault in Germany (2016), Sweden (2018) and Spain (2022). It focuses on the main challenge for law reform in this field: the complexity of consent-based rules. Before drafting new offence descriptions, the variety of models of consent should be analysed and their advantages and disadvantages considered. Lawmakers should also pay attention to situations that either make consent impossible or endanger the validity of factual consent.