Earlier this month, Queensland became the latest state to pass affirmative consent laws. This means consent is understood as ongoing communication for the purposes of rape and sexual assault offenses.

Consent is a clear and affirmative expression of the permission to do something, to touch or to be touched in certain places, with certain manners and at certain times. Many myths about sex and ...

Sexual consent is the mutual, freely expressed agreement by all parties involved to engage in intimate activities. A lack or blatant disregard for sexual consent results in sexual assault and rape. It ...

Applying the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, 9 the Eleventh Circuit ruled that in promulgating the 2023 order, the FCC exceeded its statutory authority. The Court found ...

The lack of legal clarity around consent laws in the U.S. means that many sexual assaults, especially ones on college campuses and involving alcohol, are not legally crimes. But Texas lawmakers ...

“At bottom, the FCC has ‘decreed a duty on [lead generators] that the statute does not require and that the statute does not empower the FCC to impose.’ The FCC therefore exceeded its statutory ...

Giselle Natassia Woodley is part of the Australian Research Council's Discovery Project funding scheme (project DP190102435). The views expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily the ...

Andrea Waling receives funding from The Australian Research Council, the Commonwealth Department of Health, and the Medical Research Future Fund. The Australian government has recently launched ...

Rules around consent are forever, even after a nasty breakup. A Canberra woman has recently managed to avoid jail time after she shared explicit videos of her ex on OnlyFans. She had his consent to ...

This change is expected to bring a new wave of litigation challenging whether the asserted consent was given for the specific marketer, the disclosure of the consent was clear and conspicuous, and the ...

Informed consent represents one of the most important ethical aspects of clinical treatments and scientific research involving humans. This article will discuss the key elements of informed consent ...

Nearly two dozen civil society groups and nonprofits have written an open letter to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), urging it not to endorse a strategy used by Meta that they say is ...