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Cathy
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Attorney, Professor of Law |
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Cathy
E. Crosson is an atorney and law professor
specializing in the First Amendment
and feminist
jurisprudence. Since 1986, she has worked as
an appellate attorney with the BVeverly Hills
law firm of Weston, Sarno, Garrou & DeWitt,
preeminent in the legal defense of erotic expression
for the past two decades. In addition to briefing
many obscenity-related cases in state and federal
courts across the country, Ms. Crosson has
briefed four free-speech cases before the United
States
Supreme Court. Ms. Crosson also teaches law
and political science at Indiana University,
where
she received her B.A. (1975, summa cum laude)
and her J.D. (1982, cum laude).
Topics:
- Constitutional/legal issues concerning
obscenity and pornography
- History of
censorship
- Social and political forces driving
censorship campaigns
- A feminist critique
of current anti-pornography campaigns
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