Sexual Agreements with Albertina Antognini & Susan Frelich Appleton

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I’m thrilled today to welcome new friend, Albertina Antognini and old (by which I mean long-time) friend, Susan Appleton. Albertina Antognini is the James E. Rogers Professor of Law at the University of Arizona where she teaches Family Law, Property, Trusts & Estates, and a seminar surveying different legal regimes that shape the contemporary American family. Professor Antognini’s work examines the ways that legal rules actively regulate, and in the process define, families. Her research is centrally preoccupied with considering how categories that may appear “natural” are in fact products of law, with the aim of opening them up to a more rigorous critique.

Susan Appleton is the Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law. She is a nationally known expert in family law and feminist legal theory. Her research, scholarship, and teaching address reproductive justice, parentage, gender, sexualities, and public assistance for families. They join us today to discuss their recent article, Sexual Agreements, published in the Wash. U. Law Review. UVA Law 3L, Laura Habib, co-hosts this episode.

Further Reading

• Antognini and Appleton, Sexual Agreements, 99 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1807 (2022)
• Antognini bio https://law.arizona.edu/person/albertina-antognini
• Antognini, Nonmarital Contracts, 73 Stan. L. Rev. 67 (2021)
• Antognini, Nonmarital Coverture, 99 B.U. L. Rev. 2139 (2019)
• Appleton bio https://law.wustl.edu/faculty-staff-directory/profile/susan-frelich-appleton/
• Appleton, Sex Positive Feminism’s Values in Search of the Law of Pleasure, in The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States (Deborah L. Brake, Martha Chamallas, & Verna Williams eds., 2023).
• Appleton, Families Under Construction: Parentage, Adoption, and Assisted Reproduction (with D. Kelly Weisberg) (2021).
• Krawiec bio https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/kdk4q/1181653
• Krawiec, Gametes: Commodification and The Fertility Industry, in Routledge Handbook of Commodification, Routledge, 278–289 (1 ed. 2023).
• Krawiec, Markets, repugnance, and externalities, Journal of Institutional Economics 1–12 (2022).
• Krawiec, No Money Allowed, 2022 University of Chicago Legal Forum 221–240 (2022).