Intimate Lies and the Law - How the law protects intimate deceivers and harms the deceived

As the title of her book suggests, in this CLE, Minnesota Law School Professor Jill Hasday will discuss deception in intimate relationships and the hidden body of law that governs it with emphasis on how our current laws are often placing too much emphasis on protecting intimate deceivers and too little importance on helping the people they deceive.

Intimacy and deception are often entangled. People deceive to lure someone into a relationship or to keep her or him there, to drain an intimate's bank account or to use her to acquire government benefits, to control an intimate or to resist domination, or to capture myriad other advantages. No subject is immune from deception in dating, sex, marriage, and family life. Intimates can lie or otherwise intentionally mislead each other about anything and everything.

Intimate Lies and the Law is the first book that systematically examines deception in intimate relationships and uncovers the hidden body of law governing this duplicity. Professor Jill Hasday argues that the law has placed too much emphasis on protecting intimate deceivers and too little importance on helping the people they deceive. The law can and should do more to recognize, prevent, and redress the injuries that intimate deception can inflict. The book won the Scribes Book Award from the American Society of Legal Writers "for the best work of legal scholarship published during the previous year" and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Family and Relationships.

Professor Jill Hasday , University of Minnesota Law School

CLE Credits:

1.0 Standard CLE Credit | Event Code: 439697

Cost:

MSBA/HCBA/RCBA Members: $10
Non-Members: $30 
Law Student: Free

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Jennifer Carter
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612-278-6309