Dr Katie Cruz
PhD (Nottingham), MA (Nottingham), LLB (King's College London)
Current positions
Associate Professor
University of Bristol Law School
Contact
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Research interests
Feminist and Marxist theory; regulation of sex work; trafficking for sexual exploitation; sex tourism; 'free'/unfree labour; basic income; labour law; public law; contract law
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8116 ESRC COVID-19 Grant via Leeds, K Cruz
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
10/09/2020 to 09/01/2022
Revisiting Child Sex Tourism, Rethinking Business Responses
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The phenomenon of ‘child sex tourism’ (often now discussed as a form of ‘modern slavery’) has been a focus of concern and action for over two decades. Child rights NGOs…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/11/2017 to 31/03/2019
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
18/02/2024Materialism, Sex Work, and the Law
Feminists@law
Trade union legal mobilization and consciousness
Journal of Law and Society
The sex worker rights movement and trade unionism in Europe: case studies from Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom
The sex worker rights movement and trade unionism in Europe: case studies from Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom
Unionising Sex Workers and Other Feminists
Social and Legal Studies
Dancers win at work
Studies in Political Economy
